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November 30, 1968

The Hockey News November 30, 1968

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01226/2622473-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="616" height="740"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02157/2622466-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="601" height="701"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03127/2622459-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="602" height="737"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0498/2622452-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="598" height="709"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0544/2622445-1-eng-US/f0020-052.jpg" title="f0020-05" width="586" height="715"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0630/2622438-1-eng-US/f0020-062.jpg" title="f0020-06" width="591" height="668"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0726/2622431-1-eng-US/f0020-072.jpg" title="f0020-07" width="584" height="725"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0819/2622424-1-eng-US/f0020-082.jpg" title="f0020-08" width="583" height="654"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0913/2622417-1-eng-US/f0020-092.jpg" title="f0020-09" width="579" height="786"></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

CHL TEAM SCORING

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01110/2622775-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="607" height="278"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0254/2622768-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="583" height="365"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0343/2622761-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="575" height="282"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0431/2622754-1-eng-US/f0022-042.jpg" title="f0022-04" width="589" height="248"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0523/2622747-1-eng-US/f0022-052.jpg" title="f0022-05" width="589" height="352"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0619/2622740-1-eng-US/f0022-062.jpg" title="f0022-06" width="591" height="298"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0719/2622733-1-eng-US/f0022-072.jpg" title="f0022-07" width="590" height="316"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0817/2622726-1-eng-US/f0022-082.jpg" title="f0022-08" width="592" height="293"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0914/2622719-1-eng-US/f0022-092.jpg" title="f0022-09" width="621" height="274"></div><h2>NEW YORK METRO JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 18)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1012/2622712-1-eng-US/f0022-102.jpg" title="f0022-10" width="590" height="374"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1111/2622705-1-eng-US/f0022-112.jpg" title="f0022-11" width="596" height="322"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1210/2622698-1-eng-US/f0022-122.jpg" title="f0022-12" width="592" height="245"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-139/2622691-1-eng-US/f0022-132.jpg" title="f0022-13" width="588" height="270"></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Races

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0433/2622927-1-eng-US/f0023-042.jpg" title="f0023-04" width="601" height="493"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tues. Nov. 19Kitchener 3 at London 12Thurs. Nov. 21Montreal 7 at Hamilton 4London 3 at Peterborough 6Fri. Nov. 22Oshawa 3 at Niagara Falls 9St. Catharines 5 at Toronto 7Montreal 7 at Kitchener 1London 2 at Ottawa 4Sun. Nov. 24Kitchener 3 at Montreal 8Ottawa 3 at Toronto 4Peterborough 1 at St. Catharines 5Hamilton 2 at Oshawa 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0521/2622920-1-eng-US/f0023-052.jpg" title="f0023-05" width="597" height="604"></div> &#9632;

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How They Stand

PITTSBURGH, PaDespite the current plight of the Pittsburgh Penguins, General manager Jack Riley says he will make no changes unless he thinks it will improve the club. And that includes the team&rsquo;s coaching set up as well as its player alignment.&ldquo;I know some fans think we should change coaches,&rdquo; Riley said, &ldquo;but that&rsquo;s ridiculous. Red (Sullivan) can&rsquo;t get out on the ice with these fellows and that&rsquo;s where they&rsquo;re losing. It&rsquo;s not his fault.&ldquo;I think everyone is losing his prospective in this. It is still too early in the season to count us out. And we&rsquo;re not playing that bad. I&rsquo;d be worried if we were.&rdquo;Riley has made several minor changes, bringing un farm hand or two from Amarillo. But the two men the home town crowd would like to see remain in the minors, Andy Bathgate and Billy Speer. They were two of Pittsburgh&rsquo;s crowd pleasers last season, Bathgate with his sizzling slap shot and Speer with his body stopping defensive work. It surprised many Penguins fans when Bathgate was cut and Speer shipped to Baltimore before the team broke pre-season training camp.&ldquo;We&rsquo;d welcome Andy back if we thought he could help us,&rdquo; Riley said. &ldquo;But people tell me that he still is not skating and that&rsquo;s why we cut him in the first place. We expected him to score. There was no doubt about that. But if you can&rsquo;t skate it makes a difference up here.&rdquo; &#9632;

Riley Says There’s No Need For Club Coaching Change

<div class="byline">BY PAT CURRAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01627/2620974-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="543" height="888"><figcaption class="caption-body">LARRY HILLMAN&hellip; Expected Trade</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que. &mdash;Larry Hillman finally became bona fide member of the Montreal Canadiens even if he had to take the long way around to realize his ambition.For a time Hillman didn&rsquo;t know to which club he actually belonged &mdash; Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota North Stars or Pittsburgh Penguins.Here&rsquo;s how the strange turns of events unfolded:Hillman was traded to the Canadiens by Minnesota in the original deal in exchange for Brian Smith, a forward. But NHL president Clarence Campbell stepped in and nullified the trade.The North Stars had neglected the little formality of first putting Hillman on waivers.Hillman was ineligible to play for the Canadiens ruled Campbell. Thus the Pittsburgh Penguins put in a claim for Hillman after Campbell&rsquo;s decision and acquired his services.In an attempt to implement a trade to nullify the NHL decision, Montreal, Minnesota and Pittsburgh got together and engineered a three-way deal.Pittsburgh paid the $30,000 waiver price for Hillman to Minnesota, then sold him to Montreal for $30,000 and a minor league defenseman Jean-Guy Lagace, who is now playing with Amarillo of the Central League. He becomes Pittsburgh property.Minnesota in turn handed over $30,000 to Montreal for Smith.Meanwhile, while warming the bench at Minnesota for the first six weeks of the schedule, Hillman fully expected to be traded and had his bags ready for a quick shift to either Pittsburgh or Detroit. The move to Montreal came as a surprise but now that he&rsquo;s here the 31-year-old veteran plans a determined bid to stick with the defending league and Stanley Cup champs.&ldquo;Larry played on four Stanley Cup teams for Toronto and I don&rsquo;t think he has gone back so far that he can&rsquo;t help our club,&rdquo; said Coach Claude Ruel.Hillman was inserted into the lineup for two reasons; loose play by the other Montreal rearguards and the uncertain status of Terry Harper who has been hampered by a chronic knee ailment since training camp.&ldquo;I realize my hockey future is uncertain,&rdquo; says Hillman, six-foot, 185-pounder who works the right side of the defense but shoots left. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;m sure ready to work and prove that I can help the Canadiens.Larry had his best NHL season in 1966-67 but fell into Imlach&rsquo;s bad books as a salary holdout prior to last season. Although he played 55 games for Toronto, following recall from Rochester, Hillman wasn&rsquo;t surprised when he was unprotected in last June&rsquo;s draft. However he was surprised and disappointed, too, when the North Stars used him only in spots while Wren Blair went along with Mike McMahon, Bob McCord, Elmer Vasko and his brother Wayne Hillman.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03504/2620967-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="536" height="888"><figcaption class="caption-body">CLARENCE CAMPBELL&hellip; North Stars erred</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Rumors kept going the rounds that I would be traded and I had to believe them,&rdquo; says Larry. &#9632;

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Montreal Gets Rearguard In Three-Corner Trade

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02599/2621005-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Not many hockey players find the time to get married during the regular season but Oakland&rsquo;s BRYAN WATSON did. Here&rsquo;s the rugged Seals&rsquo; defenseman with his new bride after their wedding in Toronto.</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass. &mdash;Which is currently the hottest team in the National Hockey League?If you named the Boston Bruins, you are 100 per cent correct.The sizzling Bruins moved to within a single point of the Eastern Division lead last week by running roughshod over three opponents in four days.On Thursday, coach Harry Sinden&rsquo;s side scored a convincing 4-1 triumph over the Western Division runner-up Los Angeles Kings. They followed this act with even more impressive offensive displays against two established teams, New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs.The Bruins cooled off the Rangers, who had high hopes of regaining their &ldquo;number one&rdquo; status held two weeks ago, 5-1. Then the Bostonians bounced back with another top-flight scoring effort the next night to drub the slumping Toronto Maple Leafs 7-4.All three games were played in Boston Garden before enthusiastic crowds that flirted with the 15,000 mark each night. &#9632;

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Hot Bruins Nearing Top In NHL Race

LOS ANGELES, Calif. &mdash;Manager Larry Regan returned from his two-week exile to Europe &hellip; The Kings&rsquo; four-game winning streak and four-week, eight-game home-stand came to an end in 5-2 loss to Terry Sawchuck and the Detroit Red Wings, and 10-day, six-game road-trip got off to poor beginning&hellip; The Kings open another long home stand &mdash; three weeks and five games &mdash; on Thansgiving Eve. &#9632;

Regan Back From Europe

<div class="byline">BY SPENCE CONLEY</div>OAKLAND, Calif. &mdash;With the exception of a lot of frustrated shooters in the Western Canada Junior League, nobody&rsquo;d ever heard much of a young goaltender namer Chris Worthy.Until an off-season deal between the Oakland Seals and the Detroit Red Wings, Worthy seemed destined for anonymity in the vast Red Wing farm system despite sparkling 10-shutout performance for the Flin Flon Bombers.But today, a lot of people know of Chris Worthy, especially the Red Wings, who yielded the 20-year old youngster his first big league victory.When the Seal goaltending situation took an unexpected turn for the worse, coach Fred Glover and general manager Frank Seike began to take a longer, harder look at their fine rookie prospect.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01629/2621067-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="563" height="681"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRANCOIS LACOMBE&hellip; Spectacular Newcomer</figcaption></div>Worthy, the two men felt, was good, very good in fact, but surely he needed some seasoning in the professional minor leagues before he would be ready for the National Hockey League.But placing Worthy with the right team and the right coach became a problem and Chris was taken out to Oakland when the Seals left training camp in Ottawa.Before long, however, Selke decided a third goalkeeper might be a handy item, since regulars Charlie Hodge and Gary Smith were having some difficulties.Chris was told to bring his family to Oakland.A week later, Glover told Worthy he had better have his equipment available on a trip into Los Angeles (Nov. 12) and it was then, he said, &ldquo;I began to get an inkling that I might be going to play.&rdquo;Play he did and for the first time since he joined the Oakland Seals, Charlie Hodge didn&rsquo;t dress for game.With Smith in the backup spot, Worthy made his NHL debut against the Kings and lost, 3-1.&ldquo;Chris played well enough to win,&rdquo; said Glover. &ldquo;He is a good goaltender. He concentrates hard and he thinks about every move he makes.&rdquo;But why Worthy and not Smith?Selke explains:&ldquo;In almost every game up to that point using Smith and Hodge we&rsquo;d had one bad goal scored against s. The kind of goal which shouldn&rsquo;t be. We had to do something. Worthy had shown all through training camp that he had the makings of a solid NHL goal-keeper. It wasn&rsquo;t a very hard decision to make and he certainly justified our faith in him.He did at that.The very next night after the L.A. game, Worthy went into action against the Detroit Red Wings, his former owners, and thanks to Gary Jarrett&rsquo;s seventh goal of the season with 48 seconds to play, came out with a stunning 2-1 win.&ldquo;We knew he was a good one, &ldquo;sighed Red Wings GM Sid Abel, &ldquo;but we hardly expected to see him so soon.&rdquo;Like most NHL coaches, Glover likes to go with the hot-handed goalkeeper and Chris&rsquo; next appearance after the Red Wing victory was Nov. 16 against the defending Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens.Worthy helped Seals to a 3-3 tie.Although he admitted his debut was a battle more against butterflies in the stomach than the Kings, Worthy showed the kind of intensity necessary to win and provided the team spirit to help juice up the slumping Seals.His win over Detroit snapped a four-game losing string as well.What did he learn in those two initial games?&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t imagine the difference between the kind of league I came from and the NHL. Inches are what&rsquo;s at stake. Give the guys an inch too much on the corners and it&rsquo;s in the net.&ldquo;The shooters are quick, too. and that means you&rsquo;ve got to be ready any time the other club gets the puck and that means any-where in the rink. But I&rsquo;ve had plenty of help. That&rsquo;s important for me, &ldquo;Chris says.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02512/2621060-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1764" height="2264"><figcaption class="caption-body">Oakland rookie netminder CHRIS WORTHY (I) keeps his eye on the puck during goalmouth jam around net against Montreal&rsquo;s Canadiens.</figcaption></div>The way things are going for Chris now, and who knows how long it will last, he is of primary importance to the Oakland Seals, currently locked in a bitter dogfight to stay in the running for the Division playoffs.Worthy, of course, isn&rsquo;t the only young rookie to make it with the Seals. The other is defenseman Francois Lacombe, the ex-junior Canadien, who shows great poise and playmaking skills. He&rsquo;s just 20.Norm Ferguson, the former Cleveland Baron, a 45-goal shooter in the AHL last season, has been doing an outstanding job in his. first season as an NHL right winger.If the Seals have a problem which needs improvement it&rsquo;s at center ice. With Worthy going well and the defense perked up a little, the big headache is getting the centers to produce more than they have been.Ted Hampson has been the only pivot who has played with consistency and it&rsquo;s evident in his scoring record (4-9-13), but Joe Szura and Billy Harris have been disappointing. Rookie Brian Perry has been getting more and more action here.In order to get a better offensive performance, Glover scrambled his lineup with an eggbeater just before the L.A. game and although the first time out was costly, it paid off against Detroit. &#9632;

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Junior Goaling Ace Worthy Makes Jump Directly To NHL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01691/2621122-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><h2>Player Rosters Should Be Found in Summary</h2>Hockey News Editor:I am enjoying my third year as a subscriber of your fine publication. Your paper is most interesting and is a must for every hockey fan who wants to keep abreast of the world of hockey I&rsquo;ve never had reason to take fault with your weekly. However, there is one beef I&rsquo;d like to air.I am deeply disappointed with your National League summary page. Unlike past years you have omitted team rosters preceding a game report. I believe one of the main features of a summary is the roster which helps the reader inentify player changes and new players.I&rsquo;ve noticed that daily newspapers, for several years, have omitted this feature. I therefore looked forward to reading the summaries in THE HOCKEY NEWS. I understand space is at a premium in your paper, but I still believe the rosters are of prime importance for a complete summary. I hope to see this situation rectified.BRIAN NEWMAN,Montreal, Que.<h2>Red Wings Names, Numbers Sought By Fan</h2>Hockey News Editor:Close to the end of the 1967-68 season, I wrote you requesting that you print my letter requesting hockey fans to write me with jersey numbers the Detroit Red Wing players have worn down through the years. Since you printed my letter the response to it was very good. I am still short of my goal and gratefully request that you reprint the below again. I have hopes of completing it this season. You have been most helpful and I want to thank you very much for assisting me. Keep up the fine job you are doing on reporting on the greatest sport in the world.I would like to hear from anyone that has any information on the jersey numbers worn by the Detroit Red Wings players down through the years. Some Players have had more than one number, but, I would like the player&rsquo;s name and the numbers he has worn. I have numbers for 201 of the 382 Red Wings. The ones I am missing are the older players back in the 20s. 30s and 40s. I will be very thankful for anyone can help me.HAROLD B. BACHMANDearborn Heights, Mich.<h2>Here&rsquo;s Hoping Keon Will Snap Out Of it</h2>Hockey News Editor:I would like to make a few comments regarding the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; hopes for a playoff berth this year.Most Leaf fans think if Toronto is ever going to make that precious fourth spot they must have a big year scoring-wise from Dave Keon. In my opinion. Keon hasn&rsquo;t been playing up to expectations these last couple of seasons. His play was very disappointing, especially when he had so many chances to score on breakaways. He seems to have lost his touch and nobody can seem to put their finger on the reason why.Personally, I hope Davey snaps out of it and starts turning on those red lights at the rate of about 25 per season. The Leafs are depending on his scoring resurgence to put them in the playoffs.DAVID RING,Saint John, N.B.<h2>Playoff Eligibility Rule Change Needed</h2>Hockey News Editor:I think that rule change should be made pertaining to qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs, in the event of a tie in regular season play.The rule is that if two teams are tied for fourth place with the same won-and-lost record, the team with the most goals will get the qualifying nod. I think the team with the best goals for-and-against average should qualify.What if a team has a sturdy defense but not a potent offense and is in this situation? Let&rsquo;s say a defensive team has scored 178 goals but has allowed only 175, while the offensive minded team scored 209 but gave up a massive total of 219 goals. In this case the defensive-minded club has played better hockey, but the other club makes the playoffs.I think this rule should be changed before a team which has struggled all year to make the playoffs is unfairly eliminated.GLENN WOJTECH,Berkeley Heights, N.J. &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02642/2621181-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="323" height="450"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03547/2621174-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="249" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Ruck</figcaption></div>&bull; DON RUCK, Director of Public Relations for the National Hockey League, being lauded by NHL owners for the excellent job he does in running the league&rsquo;s New York office. As reward for his fine work he was recently appointed vice-president of the NHL and has the honor of being the first vice-president in the history of the National Hockey League &hellip; John Ferguson didn&rsquo;t win any friends for himself the other night in Montreal when he took resounding reef at Goalie Roger Crozier of the Red Wings. One of the nicest guys you could hope to meet off &lsquo;the ice, Ferguson becomes one of the meanest once he steps out on the ice surface &hellip; Members of the NHL rules committee are considering making some changes in the rule that makes the goalkeeper &ldquo;free game&rdquo; once he leaves the protection of his crease. The play-by-play announcers in the NHL expansion cities doing a terrific job in selling the sport &hellip; Jack Kent Cooke, owner of the Los Angeles Kings, listened to more than 100 tapes submitted to him from all over Canada and the United States before personally selecting Ken &ldquo;Jiggs&rdquo; McDonald as &ldquo;The Voice of the Kings&rdquo; and calls him &ldquo;the greatest hockey broadcaster in America&rdquo; &hellip; &ldquo;Jiggs&rdquo; is native of Orillia, Ont. and literally came out of nowhere to land the lush LA broadcasting job &hellip; Quote from Punch Imlach, guiding genius behind the Toronto Maple Leafs: &ldquo;I know I&rsquo;ve got lot of young players this year and can&rsquo;t expect miracles. But within three years or less Toronto will recapture the Stanley Cup&rdquo;&hellip; Jim Fanning, GM of the Montreal Expos in the National Baseball League, has become an avid hockey fan. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know anything about hockey but it&rsquo;s easy to see that Jean Beliveau is one of the greats of the game,&rdquo; commented the baseball executive &hellip; Charlie Hodge and the Oakland Seals not seeing eye-to-eye these days.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04475/2621167-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="243" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Sullivan</figcaption></div>&bull; VERN DE GEER, one of the best-known and best-loved sportswriters in Canada and the United States, died in Montreal last weekend after a lengthy illness. A native of Saskatoon, Sask., Vern was formely sports editor of the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Windsor Star, Toronto Globe and Mail and sports director of the Montreal Gazette. His contagious laugh and good humor will be sorely missed along the sports beat. We rate him as one of the nicest people we&rsquo;ve ever known. Sympathy of his numerous friends goes out to his wife, Marge, and his four sons, Brooks, Gary, Kent and Derek &hellip; Boom Boom Geoffrion has taken a real liking to New York. The Ranger coach recently bought a home in Long Beach. Long Island, and his oldest son Robert is playing minor hockey in that area and doing very well &hellip; Kenny Reardon, former swashbuckling All-Star defenseman with the Montreal Canadiens, ways he won&rsquo;t play this winter with the Montreal NHL Old Timers. He intends to concentrate on skiing instead. His colorful play will be missed as he was always one of the standout performers in these Old Timers games &hellip; Bobby Haggert, who was head trainer of the Toronto Maple Leafs for eight seasons and who retired prior to the start of this one, is barred from the Maple Leafs dressing room and the Maple Leafs Gardens press room. No reason was given why Haggert, associated with the Leafs in some capacity or other for 15 years, had been blacklisted, but it was felt that his association with lawyer Alan Eagleson and the National Hockey League Players Association was the obvious reason &hellip; Red Sullivan, Pittsburgh coach, is having the most trying season of his lengthy coaching career. &ldquo;If don&rsquo;t get ulcers this season I guess I&rsquo;ll never get them,&rdquo; he told a friend the other day &hellip; The Penguins are having a tough time winning games and attracting customers &hellip; John Washington, recently appointed public relations director of the Los Angeles Kings, doing first-class job in his new post &hellip; Toots Holway, a pioneer pro puck chaser who once played with the Montreal Maroons, died last week in Belleville, Ont &hellip; Hockey fans will be pleased to hear that Frank Seike Sr. has come through a successful operation and is back following the hockey trail.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05412/2621160-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="244" height="405"><figcaption class="caption-body">Norm Ullman</figcaption></div>&bull; JAN MARKE, 21-year-old goalie from Czechoslovakia, has been working out with the Toronto Maple Leafs lately. He had to borrow face-mask for the workouts as he fled Czechoslovakia without his own. &ldquo;I hope the Russians will release it,&rdquo; he said. He had better hope they release the guy that owns it, too &hellip; All but two players in the National Hockey League officially became members last week of scheme by which they would endorse consumer products through U.S. licensing company with Bobby Haggert of Toronto the firm&rsquo;s Canadian representative &hellip; Norm Ullman, president of the NHL Players Association and Alan Eagleson, the Toronto lawyer who is executive director of the players&rsquo; association, made the announcement at press party in Toronto. 216 NHL players are involved in the plan &hellip; Hockey fans in the New York area wishing to attend the first of the twice-monthly hockey luncheons to be conducted this season by Marv Albert, sports director of Station WHN, New York and the Rangers&rsquo; play-by-play announcer, should telephone 265-3385 in New York for complete information. These luncheons will be along the lines of the very successfull football luncheons which are so popular in New York. Boom Boom Geoffrion will be the guest speaker of the opening luncheon scheduled for December 2. Outstanding hockey films will be shown at these luncheons and NHL players and personalities will also be on hand. Out of towners may write to Marv at his radio station for further info.EAST-WEST SCOREBOARD:<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06335/2621153-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="1252" height="245"></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01644/2621212-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"></div>In today&rsquo;s game, this young man handed out five stiff body checks, blocked two slapshots from the point, was boarded by a big right winger, caught an elbowwhile digging the puck out of the corner, was flattened trying to clear the puck, and picked up an assist on a goal. He played a good game. He played it hard. But most important, he&rsquo;s still in one piece. That&rsquo;s the part we played in today&rsquo;s game.Hockey Equipment Don&rsquo;t play games with anything else. &#9632;

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Cooper

<div class="byline">BY GEOFFREY FISHER</div>ST. LOUIS, Mo. &mdash;The bones rattle, rumble and talk back, the old speed is at least one gear slower, and the ice seems to be tilted uphill a good deal of the time, but one of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s greatest scorers is still carving his name into the record books.Camille Henry, who looks more like a hockey stick than a hockey player, who would seem to be more at home in the jockey&rsquo;s quarters at Aqueduct than the hockey quarters of the St. Louis Blues, is still giving enemy goal-tenders the shakes.Camille (The Eel), who will be 36 in January and is in his 14th NHL season, exploded his seventh career &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo;, Sunday night. November 3, to enable the Blues to battle back to a 4-4 deadlock with the Detroit Red Wings after the Wings had piled up a 4-1 advantage at the Detroit Olympia.That accomplishment not only earned Henry the distinction of being the first St. Louis player to record &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo;, but it thrust him into seventh place among active players who have scored three goals in a single game. And the company is distinguished since it includes, from the top down, Bobby Hull, Boom Boom Geoffrion, Gordie Howe, Jean Beliveau, Norm Ullman and Stan Mikita.Henry might well rate as the greatest &ldquo;tip in&rdquo; artist the NHL has ever seen. His finesse around the net stems from the sort of natural instinct and perception that comes with the rest of the body at birth. It can be polished but never invented. It&rsquo;s what makes the splinter from Quebec such a magnificent play finisher on the power play.In an interview with this HOCKEY NEWS correspondent, Henry was explaining the factors that go to make up this kind of special ability. &ldquo;I try to position myself in anticipation for where the play will be,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not able to stay in one spot in front of the net because I would get killed by those big defensemen and so I stay close on the attack and try to be there when the puck arrives by the cage.&rdquo;It was just 48 hours after this interview that Henry got his &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; in Detroit, proving that his split-second timetable is working very well.Henry is not a fast skater nor a smooth one. Like many of the great scorers of pro hockey history, he depends more on deception, change of pace, stick handling and precision marksmanship.&ldquo;From more than 25 feet out my shot would not reach the net,&rdquo; he says with modest smile.He started this season with 261 goals and a powerful desire to reach the 300 mark before he retires from the game as a player.But his immediate target was to top the 270 goals scored by another little man, Aurele Joliat, 150-pound All-Star left winger of the Montreal Canadiens in the 1930&rsquo;s. Henry tied the Joliat mark. Thursday night, November at the Philadelphia Spectrum. It was the same game in which teammate Gordon (Red) Berenson fired home six goals to tie a 24-year-record. Since then Henry has buried the joliat records by scoring his 500th career point, this one against Detroit November 16. He set up Berenson for the score that gave the Blues a 1-1 tie. The following day, against Minnesota, Henry notched his 10th goal of the season.Joliat, who along with his legendary center iceman, Howie Morenz, were the world&rsquo;s greatest heroes to Quebec youngsters in those days, was built so much like Henry that Montreal writer a few years ago compared the two and rated them as the two best small players ever to play in the NHL.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01718/2621243-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="537" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body">CAMILLE HENRY&hellip; Aims at 300-Goal mark</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I was so impressed with that story,&rdquo; recalls Henry, &ldquo;that I spent some time checking back into Joliat&rsquo;s record. It was then that I made up my mind I wanted to try to beat it.&rdquo;Just year ago, at the gala opening of the New Madison Square Gardens in New York City, Henry, then with the New York Rangers, had what he calls &ldquo;a big thrill&rdquo;. He met Aurele Joliat in person.&ldquo;I told him that I was going to shoot for his record,&rdquo; said Camille. &ldquo;He shook my hand and said he wished me luck and told me that little fellows such as we are have to play it smart or we&rsquo;ll get our heads knocked off.&rdquo;Camille Henry&rsquo;s head, that tops off a skinny, sinewy body that varies between 140 to 145 pounds, has never been fully knocked off yet but it has been shaken quite loose many times by vengeance-seeking musclemen striving to keep the pesky little sniper from turning on the red light.His face has been slashed and sliced for enough cuts to require about 150 stitches. He has a streak of scar tissue running from his right eye to below his right ear from a skate cut that needed 14 stitches.He doesn&rsquo;t like the curved blade which has become so popular with some players in recent years. He continues to use the straight blade and says he can do more things in close with the puck with a conventional stick.After 12 years with the New York Rangers, and one with the Chicago Black Hawks (1954-65), Henry was momentarily shocked upon hearing of his trade to St. Louis last June. &#9632;

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Henry In Select Company Scoring 14th Hat Trick To Top Off NHL Comeback

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02583/2621274-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">WALT TKACZUK &hellip; New York Rangers</figcaption></div>It has been many years since the New York Rangers have glowed over a rookie in the manner they&rsquo;re touting young Walt Tkaczuk for the big time. A talented six-footer, who weighs 185 pounds, Tkaczuk jumped directly from junior ranks to the NHL this season. After a brief two-week stay in the minors, he is back and not likely to leave for some time. Rangers had to give the black-haired center a bonus to sign but they figure it will be worth it in the long run. &#9632;

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MEET THE ROOKIES

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES, Calif. &mdash;Last season, as their defense fell apart around them, two of the Los Angeles Kings&rsquo; biggest disappointments were Bob Wall and Dale Rolfe, highly-regarded veteran minor league stars who had been espected to respond successfully to big time opportunity. In pre-season camp this summer, coach Red Kelly announced that he would experiment with both at left-wing posts. Ominously, he added that if they did not make the grade up front, they should not expect to be retained on the rearguard.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01670/2621319-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="245" height="350"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dale Rolfe</figcaption></div>Wall made it. Rolfe did not, but Kelly did reassign him to his old defense post. And through the first five weeks of the current campaign, they were playing their positions extremely well, although no one would be startled if Wall wound up playing defense and Rolfe a wing sometime again this season.Actually, they have been two of the best Kings so far.At 26, Wall played forward only a few games in six prior seasons as a pro, in the Detroit system and occasionally with the big club, but he is small&mdash;only 5-10 and 170 pounds&mdash;and a good skater and puck-handler and perhaps is better suited to his new position than he was to his old one.He sometimes hesitates on offense, as though he felt out of place which has limited his scoring so far, but he is hustling his way to good opportunities. He sometimes drifts back into a defensive stance too quickly, but he doesn&rsquo;t seem to lose his opposing wings too often and he sort of gives the club a third rearguard when the other team has the puck.&ldquo;Skating backward like a defenseman does may slow me down a bit, but gives me a better look at the movements of the men and the puck coming in,&rdquo; Bob grins. &ldquo;My lack of heft isn&rsquo;t as much of a disadvantage to me up front as it was on defense and my other talents seem suited to playing forward. It makes me a more versatile forward, who knows what the defensemen are thinking and trying to do. I still have a lot to learn and a lot of adjustments to make in my new spot, but I love it.He says that he, himself, did not feel he had a good season last year. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d waited long time for a real NHL opportunity and maybe the pressure of producing got to me,&rdquo; he sighs. &ldquo;In any event, I felt I could play much better and I was determined to prove it this season. I think the second season in the majors is the one in which players really prove what they have, anyway. Frankly, I thought maybe I might be better suited for a forward and talked with my wife about asking for a chance up front, but someone up top decided to give me that chance even before I could ask for it.&rdquo;A thoughtful, intelligent, personable individual, Wall gave up the captaincy of the club this season to devote himself to proving himself as a player. &ldquo;I think I could be a good captain, but the responsibility might have bothered me,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Making the grade as a regular in the majors is too important to me to neglect it in any way. The challenge of making it in new position has stimulated me. The team has begun to play well lately. I&rsquo;m playing well, I think I feel great. I&rsquo;ll tell you the truth, I feel like a new man.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02607/2621312-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1150" height="1300"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB WALL &hellip; Experiment Paying Off</figcaption></div>Rolfe, a 6-4, 205-pounder, who eats up the ice with great strides, handles the puck well and surrounds foes with his long arms, still might make a good forward, but feels he is lot better defenseman this season than he was last season. &ldquo;I had some problems last year, but I&rsquo;d just as soon not go into them,&rdquo; he comments mysteriously. &ldquo;I do know I played erratically, but I think I&rsquo;m playing more like I can at my best now.&rdquo;Because of his size, he is expected to shove people around. When he doesn&rsquo;t, he is regarded as a disappointment. Well, he doesn&rsquo;t, but he does many things well. When the Kings demoted him to the minors for a few games last season, several clubs made offers for him. But the Kings decided to hang onto him and now they&rsquo;re happy they did. &ldquo;He is playing tremendously well now and can become one of the better defensemen in hockey,&rdquo; coach Red Kelly says.Wall feels the change-of-position experiments really paid off. &ldquo;If nothing else, it seemed to shake Rolfe up. At his best, he is outstanding, and I&rsquo;ve never seen him better than he is right now,&rdquo; the former captain comments. &ldquo;As for myself, I&rsquo;ve gotten new lease on life. Red asked me if I&rsquo;d mind if he used me back on defense in an emergency. I said I&rsquo;d be tickled. It seems to me that the more places I can play, effectively the more secure my job is and the better off the team is.&rdquo;<h2>LOOKING AT NHL RACE</h2>(Standings on Wednesday. Nov. 27)<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03478/2621305-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="1119" height="630"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Nov. 20Detroit at Montrela 3Pittsburgh 2 at Toronto 5Los Angeles 2 at New York 4Chicago 2 at Minnesota 0Oakland 0 at St. Louis 7Thurs. Nov. 21Montreal 3 at Philadelphia 0Los Angeles 1 at Boston 4Oakland 1 at Pittsburgh 3Sat. Nov. 23Minnesota 3 at Montreal 4Detroit 5 at Toronto 2New York 1 at Boston 5Chicago 0 at St. Louis 1Oakland 2 at Philadelphia 1Los Angeles 2 at Pittsburgh 2Sun. Nov. 24Toronto 4 at Boston 7Oakland 2 at New York 3Minnesota 0 at Chicago 6Los Angeles 3 at Philadelphia 1<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed. Nov. 27Montreal at Los AngelesToronto at PittsburghChicago at New YorkBoston at St. LouisDetroit at PhiladelphiaOakland at Minnesota &#9632;

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Ex-Rearguard Bob Wall Clicks In Transformation As Forward

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div>CHICAGO, Ill. &mdash;The Hawks may not have the most efficient goal-keeper in the National Hockey league at their command right now &hellip; but they certainly do have the angriest.And an angry Dave Dryden apparently is a better netminder than a placid Dave Dryden.The cause of Dave&rsquo;s anger was Hawk Coach Billy Reay&rsquo;s decision to use Jack Norris in goal against the Penguins the night after Norris was brought up from Dallas of the Central league to replace the demoted Denis DeJordy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01704/2621350-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="279" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Dryden</figcaption></div>After the game, which the Hawks won, 6-5, Dave closeted himself with Reay for nearly an hour. The general theme was that he, instead of Norris, should have been given the assignment.&ldquo;He really was pretty upset,&rdquo; reported Reay. &ldquo;Dave figured that if he&rsquo;s our No. 2 goalie behind De Jordy, he, not the No. 3 guy, should start when DeJordy doesn&rsquo;t.&ldquo;I was pretty impressed with him. You can&rsquo;t be mad at a player who has that kind of pride. You&rsquo;ve got to be for him.&rdquo;Reay insists that he had Dave scheduled to go the next night in Pittsburgh, but whether he did or not, Dryden was in the nets against the Penguins for a 6-4 victory.Next, he performed creditably in a 3-1 loss in Toronto on a Saturday night, then came back to play brilliantly against Toronto the next night in a 1-1 tie in the Stadium. Then followed 2-0 and 6-0 shutouts over Minnesota, sandwiched by a 1-0 loss to St. Louis.Reay feels that Dryden can become one of the league&rsquo;s better netminders, once he overcomes a major weakness.&ldquo;I think Dave has the best hands in the league,&rdquo; said Billy.&ldquo;His one problem is against shots from the sides. It&rsquo;s hard to figure out why, but he gets beaten from tough angles and stops guys who would seem to have him at their mercy from the slot.&rdquo;The deadlock with Toronto seemed to give Dryden a tremendous lift.&ldquo;I seemed to have more confidence on the deep shots,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;probably because the team was playing better defensively and I figured I could stay out farther from the net and cut down angles.&rdquo;That deadlock had to provide a lift to the rest of the team as well. It represented only the second time in 16 games the Hawks had held an opponent to one goal.&ldquo;Any time we keep team&rsquo;s scoring down I have to rate it as a great game,&rdquo; said Reay, who has been driven up the wall of late by his charges, casual attitude towards working in their own end of the rink.&ldquo;The most encouraging thing to me was the play of Matt Ravlich and Doug Jarrett,&rdquo; Billy continued. Reay&rsquo;s crew was 6-2 against Western foes but only 2-5-1 in the Eastern divison.HAWK TALK--Dennis Hull is finding it increasingly tough to play on Stadium ice. In fact, Reay has benched him after one period in each of the two recent home games, replacing him with either Bill Orban or Bob Schmautz.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s just not the same hockey player at home that he is on the road,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;He gets so worked up at home over what the crowd might say or what he might do that he hardly is able to stand up on his skates. This is just something he&rsquo;s going to have to work out for himself.&rdquo;Gilles Marotte has been out of action for a couple of weeks because of a bruised stomach muscle, suffered when he caught a shot full in the mid-section. Stan Mikita caught a shot on the right instep but missed only one game. &#9632;

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Enraged Dryden Gets Point Across To Reay, Wins Starting Role

<div class="byline">&#x2014;By Bill Libby</div><h2>Seals Face Hard Selling Hockey Job</h2>&bull; When the Oakland Seals were formed, 45 men, headed by Barry Van Gerbig, shared ownership. When it came time to pay the league the franchise of $2,000,000, it was much like trying to collect charity pledges. Many did not come through. Attendance in Oakland was deeply disappointing and the decision was reached to move to Vancouver. On this basis, Labatt&rsquo;s Brewery loaned the Seals the money they needed.The National Hockey League talked the Seals out of vacating the lush TV market of the San Francisco Bay area and promised Vancouver the next available opening. Van Gerbig arranged the sale of the Seals to Potter Palmer, George Gillett and John Neill, who own the Harlem Globetrotters and other enterprises. However, they first asked an extension before the deal was consumated, then dropped the deal entirely.Now Van Gerbig has formed a new group of five men, including himself, his brother, Mickey; Wayne Hickland, Mickey&rsquo;s father-in-law and chairman of the board of Avon Products; J. Anthony Boalt, a New York investment banker, and Nelson Doubleday, of the publishing family, which will seek league approval to purchase the club. Van Gerbig estimates that some $5,000,000 has been spent on the Seals so far. Among those to whom money still is owed is the Labatt&rsquo;s people.In the reorganization of the Seals, vice-president Frank Selke Jr., an immediately capable executive, became general manager, and Fred Glover, a successful minor-leaguer, was brought in from Cleveland to become coach, while manager-coach Bert Olmstead, a taut, tough person, was dismissed. Many trades were swung and the makeup of the club was altered drastically. And five games were scheduled across the Bay in San Francisco&rsquo;s Cow Palace.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02619/2621381-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="501" height="715"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRANK SELKE&hellip; Better Days Ahead</figcaption></div>In the early part of this their second season, the revamped Seals have not yet displayed emphatically that they are no longer the worst team in hockey&rsquo;s major leagues, and as attendance continues poor in Oakland and did not improve appreciably in the first trial in San Francisco, rumors that the franchise yet will shift continue to hound the organization.A small, slight, but intense and intelligent person, Selke spoke to me openly and honestly of his team&rsquo;s problems, so far removed from that he had known much of his life in Montreal. &ldquo;Our overall situation has been a long way from ideal. Our complicated ownership structure denied us firm leadership. We made many serious mistakes. Each of us must accept share in our failure. I would say we are now one to two years behind any other organization in the league,&rdquo; he sighs.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a grim situation, which has been hard for all of us to endure. And it not one we can straighten out without enduring much more suffering first. I believe there is no question now that the San Francisco-Oakland area presents us with the toughest selling job of any location in hockey&rsquo;s major leagues. Looking at it realistically, we feel the potential audience to which we can effectively try to sell hockey is only &frac12; million persoris, yet there is saturation of competitive college and pro sports teams in the area comparable to that of much larger cities. And we are trying to do it with a loser, and one which isn&rsquo;t considered secure.&rdquo;&ldquo;However, I think we are begining to settle down now,&rdquo; Selke says, a smile briefly brightening his face. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t say enough about Mr. Van Gerbig&rsquo;s love for this sport, his determination to succeed with this team, and his willingness to put his money and his reputation on the line and stand up to ridicule by projecting himself back into the picture. With a small group of dedicated partners, I think he can get the job done right. really admire him and have confidence in him.&rdquo;Selke closed his eyes a moment, sighing. &ldquo;The job has to start on the ice, he continues. &ldquo;When the new clubs were forming teams in the summer of 1967, we made the worst possible draft. Now, no one is giving away good hockey players, but we are rebuilding. We knew we needed a new coach and drew up a list of 13 promising candidates. Glover was first on the list and when he expressed interest, we went no further. His job is a hard one, but he has so restored spirited morale already, he swiftly has convinced me we could not have gotten better man.&ldquo;In any situation, you cannot criticize the community for not supporting a loser, especially when it is a new sport and a new team and the people are not sure this is their team to keep. We have a fine new building at the box-office, we might consider moving, but we are not thinking in those terms right now.&ldquo;Although I consider our present area a tough nut to crack, I think it can be cracked. There are other cities available which might support an NHL team well, but not sure they have more potential than our present one. It&rsquo;s possible we could do better in San Francisco, especially if we got a new building there, but it isn&rsquo;t certain, and I don&rsquo;t consider our present, limited schedule of games in San Francisco as offering any useful evidence. We&rsquo;re a novelty there, but we&rsquo;re not their team, we&rsquo;re only playing in their building.<h2>No Chance Of Moving Club To Vancouver</h2>&bull; &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t think there is any longer any chance of our moving to Vancouver. They&rsquo;ve been promised a franchise and want their own team now,&rdquo; he concludes. &ldquo;I am very much in earnest when I say all we&rsquo;re thinking about is straightening ourselves out and succeeding in Oakland, a city in which we can succeed, so we can live with ourselves and begin to sleep nights again.&rdquo;The new coach, dark, stocky Fred Glover, played pro hockey for 22 years, including three limited flings in the majors, but spent the last 15 years with Cleveland of the American League, the last six as playing coach. A tough, taciturn veteran, he comments, &ldquo;I was well aware of every one of the problems I faced moving into his organization, but considered it a challenge I wanted to meet.He was the greatest player the AHL ever had, a seven-time all-star and three-time MVP, who holds all league records for goals, assists, points and penalties, yet insists he does not regret his lack of prior big-time chances. &ldquo;I simply made up my mind could be comfortable in Cleveland,&rdquo; he says. Nor will he admit he misses playing now in his first season of retirement. &ldquo;I have too much else to do,&rdquo; he shrugs. &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>MONTREAL &mdash; Larry Hillman, defenseman, purchased from Pittsburgh of NHL for $30,000 and minor league defenseman Jean-Guy Lagace, now with Amarillo of CHL. Alain Caron, forward, recalled from Houston of CHL.MINNESOTA &mdash; Brian Smith, forward, purchased from Montreal for $30,000. Joey Johnston, forward, returned to Memphis of CHL. Lou Nanne, defenseman, recalled from Memphis of CHL.PITTSBURGH &mdash; Larry Hillman, defenseman, picked up from Minnesota for $30,000 waiver price, Bill Speer, defenseman, recalled from Baltimore of AHL. John Arbour, defenseman, assigned to Baltimore. Billy Lecaine, forward, returned to Amarillo of CHL.OAKLAND &mdash; Billy Harris, forward, placed on waivers. Mike Laughton, forward, recalled from Cleveland of AHL.NEW YORK &mdash; Orland Kurtenbach, forward, sent to Omaha of CHL.DETROIT &mdash; Sandy Snow, forward, called up from Fort Worth of CHL.TORONTO &mdash; Jim McKenny, defenseman, recalled from Rochester of AHL.ST. LOUIS &mdash; Ron Buchanan, forward, purchased from Quebec of AHL and assigned to Kansas City of CHL.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>ROCHESTER &mdash; Wayne Mosdell, defenseman. signed as free agent. George Wood, goal-keeper, secured from Los Angeles of NHL on waivers.HERSHEY &mdash; Ray Adduano, forward, sent to Amarillo of CHL.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>VANCOUVER &mdash; Don Cherry, defenseman, secured from Rochester of AHL.PORTLAND &mdash; Ken Campbell, forward, secured from Los Angeles of NHL.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>MEMPHIS &mdash; Al Lebrun, defenseman. secured from San Diego of WHL.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>FORT WAYNE &mdash; Rick Howe, forward, sent to St. Thomas of Western Ontario Junior League.MUSKEGON &mdash; Elgin McCann, defenseman. secured from Amarillo of CHL.COLUMBUS &mdash; George Sleaver, goalkeeper, rejoined team after being released. Marcel Roy, goalkeeper, released. Tom Mikkola, forward, signed as free agent. Bob Kelly, forward, purchased from Port Huron of IHL. Chi Chi Farenzena and Pierre Brillant, forwards, released.PORT HURON &mdash; Joe Cooper, forward, purchased from Des Moines of IHL in exchange for Barry Bougher, forward.<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2>NASHVILLE &mdash; Don La belle, defenseman. signed as free agent.SYRACUSE &mdash; Wayne Goetz, forward, signed as free agent.SALEM &mdash; Harley Hodgson, defenseman. traded to Jacksonville of EHL in return for Jim Lorette, defenseman. Wayne Spooner, forward, dropped.JACKSONVILLE &mdash; Willy Terry, forward, secured from Tulsa of CHL. Ted Baylis, defenseman. secured from Charlotte of EHL.NEW&rsquo; HAVEN &mdash; Sandy McAndrews, forward dropped. Don Perry, team coach, activated. &#9632;

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont. &mdash;Portly Bruce Gamble has been designated as Maple Leafs&rsquo; No. 1 goaltender and indications are he will do most of the work at that position this season, with Johnny Bower and Al Smith in standby roles.Gamble received this vote of confidence after starring in three games during Leafs&rsquo; successful western swing. He was prominent in both their victories &mdash; 1-0 against Minnesota North Stars and 3-1 over Oakland Seals &mdash; and also starred in their 3-1 defeat at the hands of Los Angeles Kings.Netminding was not the problem, upon Leafs&rsquo; return home, when they struggled to a 1-1 tie against Boston Bruins and Gamble was in a key role again in a 5-3 triumph over Canadiens right in Montreal&rsquo;s Forum.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been having our problems, but the goalkeeping has been strictly big-league,&rdquo; said manager-coach Punch Imlach, who worried earlier about his backstoppers.Leafs had shown some interest in acquiring either Bernie Parent or Doug Favell from Philadelphia Flyers, reasoning that the proper offer would persuade the Philly club to relinquish one or the other, since both are obviously top goalies.And Imlach&rsquo;s mind remained open on the matter. That, and Bower&rsquo;s age, were the reasons he decided to keep three goalies on hand.With his deeds, Gamble proved his right to be rated No. 1. His average, over his first six starts, was 1.5 goals a game.It&rsquo;s been a long, disheartening trail for Gamble, who recently turned 30. He started out in the New York organization and later toiled for Boston, without really establishing himself in either city. He played in such far-flung places as Providence, Vancouver, Portland and Kingston, Ont., before winding up, in 1963, with Eddie Shore&rsquo;s Springfield Indians in the American League.Some people could stand Shore&rsquo;s bizarre coaching methods and others couldn&rsquo;t. Gamble fit into the latter category and, after one term at Springfield, abandoned hockey as profession.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01704/2621436-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="556" height="580"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRUCE GAMBLE&hellip; Played Key Role</figcaption></div>Imlach, always seeking depth in the form of proven workmen, made deal with Shore prior to the 1965-66 season even though he had Bower and Terry Sawchuk on the payroll at the time. It was at this stage that Leafs made Jerry Cheevers available in the player draft and lost him to Boston.Gamble had four shutouts in eight games with Leafs that first winter but still spent most of the time with the Central League farm club at Tulsa. A season later, he played briefly in Toronto, in Tulsa and with Leafs&rsquo; American League affiliate at Rochester.Then came NHL expansion, and it was up to Leafs to provide personnel to staff the new clubs. Sawchuk was exposed in the draft and Los Angeles Kings took him. That left Bower and Gamble as Toronto&rsquo;s goalies, the first real indication that Imlach had any confidence in Gamble.That trust was vindicated during the 1967-68 season when Leafs, while finishing fifth had the second best defensive record in the entire league. Gamble appeared in 37 games and allowed an average of only 2.31 enemy goals. He had five shutouts.It couldn&rsquo;t have been encouraging to Gamble to over-hear the speculation this fall over Leafs&rsquo; uncertain goaltending. And at first, it looked as though the brunt of the work would fall to Bower and young Smith.That was before Gamble went to work and showed that he definitely had been underrated and that Imlach still hasn&rsquo;t lost his touch with aging athletes who seem to have failed in hockey. &#9632;

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Gamble Inherits No. 1 Goaling Job As Imlach Lauds Play Of Netminders

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01696/2621481-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"></div>INDIVIDUAL SCORING LEADERS(Including Games of Sunday, Nov. 24)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02644/2621474-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="605" height="2297"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03555/2621467-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="605" height="2297"></div> &#9632;

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NHL SCORING RACE

<div class="byline">BY GLENN REDMANN</div>TWIN CITIES, Minn. &mdash;Memo to those responsible persons who&rsquo;ll select the 18 or so players to represent the West Division in the National Hockey League All Star game on Jan, 21.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04467/2621512-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="253" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny Grant</figcaption></div>When you get around to picking the forwards, you wouldn&rsquo;t be too far off naming one entire line from the Minnesota North Stars.Hereabouts, the unit has been tabbed as the &ldquo;Hot&rdquo; line and is comprised of Danny O&rsquo;Shea, Danny Grant and Claude Larose.And how &ldquo;hot&rdquo; have they been? Well, in Minnesota&rsquo;s first 16 games &mdash; six of which ended in the victory column along with eight losses and two ties &mdash; the O&rsquo;Shea-Grant-Larose partnership accounted for 21 goals.That&rsquo;s exactly half of the 42 tallied by the Stars, who during the same time yielded 48 for an even goals against average of three.&ldquo;I just can&rsquo;t say enough about these three guys,&rdquo; said John Muckier, who had coached the Minnesotans in three victories, two losses and one tie by Nov. 17 after taking over bench-boss duties from general manager Wren Blair some 14 days earlier.&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve done many things to impress me since got here,&rdquo; added the 34-year-old Memphis GM &mdash; coach, &ldquo;and it&rsquo;s hard to pick out just one as being most responsible for their success.&ldquo;Frankly, I like the way they drive themselves in practice. It&rsquo;s a good habit to get into for any hockey player, because chances are it will continue once game starts.&ldquo;It may be true that they&rsquo;ve received more ice time than our other lines,&rdquo; continued John, &ldquo;but I don&rsquo;t think anyone would deny them that the way they&rsquo;ve been going.&rdquo;Grant, the 22-year-old pride of Fredericton, N.B. who managed only three goals and four assistsas a part-time performer on the left side for Montreal last season, had a West Division-leading total of 11 goals at this writing.No. 11 was a big one, rallying Minnesota from a 2-0 deficit early in the third period at St. Louis on Nov. 17 in a game which eventually ended in a 3-3 tie.Larose, the rugged 26-year-old right winger who had scored 55 goals for Montreal in the three seasons before last, was in neck-and-neck battle for the club scoring lead with Ray Cullen.Claude picked up his seventh goal and 11th assist in that hardearned deadlock against the Blues.The goal was sizzling 25-footer which knocked the veteran Glenn Hall into his net less than a minute after Grant&rsquo;s tally to knot the count at 2-2.Just when J.P. Parise&rsquo;s 3-2 goal looked as if it would be enough to give the Stars their second straight triumph of the season over St. Louis on the Blues&rsquo; home ice, Rookie Walt McKechnie took an unfortunate delay-of game penalty which Scotty Bowman&rsquo;s crew promptly converted into the deadlocker with about seven minutes left.Cesare Maniago, who along with Cullen and the &ldquo;Hot&rdquo; line must certainly rate strong consideration for an All Star team berth, shared hero honors in that Mound City tie by kicking out all but three of the 54 shots on goal launched by the Blues.Maniago&rsquo;s goals-against average has been well under 3.00 despite the fact that he was charged with five goals in a single period of work against Chicago on Oct. 16, a nightmarish game in which the Windy Citians wound up with 10-4 bulge.&ldquo;Cesare was fantastic against the Blues,&rdquo; said Blair, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;m sure he had some of Scotty&rsquo;s guys talking to themselves after ward.&rdquo;When Blair was coaching, he usually went along with the goal-keeper who was the hottest. Muckier, apparently, favors the same system because big Cesare had been in there all the way in each game since John took over with rookie Fern Rivard riding the bench.Cullen, the former New York and Detroit chattel who might easily have won the West Division scoring title last season (when he had 28 goals and 25 assists) had it not been for an ankle fracture which sidelined him for three weeks, had two assists in the St. Louis game and was only a point behind Larose with 17. Grant was third with 15 and O&rsquo;Shea, the 23-year-old former Canadian Olympic star centerman, was fourth with 13.Cullen, the likeable player representative of the Stars had set a club record Of five points in a game week earlier with one goal and four assists in a 6-4 win over the Red Wings.Was Ray especially elated to do so well against a club which didn&rsquo;t see fit to protect him in the expansion draft? &ldquo;Not at all,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;In fact, I&rsquo;m indebted to the Detroit organization for giving me the opportunity to play 27 games two seasons ago. Who knows? I might not be here now had I not played those games for the Red Wings.&rdquo; &#9632;

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North Stars’ Fans Glowing Over Play Of ‘Hot Liners’

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich. &mdash;It was in the final half minute of a game in St. Louis.Jacques Plante, still superb at 39 despite a three year layoff, wouldn&rsquo;t let a pea past him and the Red Wings trailed the Blues, 1-0.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01672/2621543-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="241" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Delvecchio</figcaption></div>Then Garry Unger worked the puck to Gordie Howe by the boards. Howe, in traffic, got it back to Kent Douglas who fired it toward the net.There, standing by himself and not shouting to Douglas so he wouldn&rsquo;t draw the Blues&rsquo; defense, was Alex Delvecchio.Delvecchio took Douglas&rsquo; pass, made a move and Plante went down to the ice. Delvecchio elevated the puck to the top of the net, just inside the crossbar and the Wings had a 1-1 tie with 22 seconds left and their goalkeeper on the bench.&ldquo;When I saw Fatty with the puck I kept yelling &lsquo;Shoot! Shoot!&rdquo; coach Bill Gadsby said afterward.&ldquo;He was just like an old pro,&rdquo; said general manager Sid Abel. &ldquo;He took the puck back and then ripped it in.&rdquo;And that&rsquo;s just what Delvecchio is: an old pro. He rarely gets a mention in the voting for anything like the Lady Byng Trophy, an award he&rsquo;s won twice which he feels is twice too often.The Red Wing publicity department dug up some statistics on Delvecchio after his last piece of heroism and they&rsquo;ll likely surprise lot of people.Delvecchio is neck-and-neck with Jean Beliveau in the race to become the second leading assist man in NHL history &mdash; at this writing they were just a step behind Andy Bathgate whose 595 were No. 2 to Gordie Howe.Delvecchio is closing in on Rocket Richard&rsquo;s total points mark of 965 and either this year or early next season he should pass former teammate Ted Lindsay&rsquo;s goal collection of 379 which stands sixth on the NHL&rsquo;s all-time list.A 66-point effort this season &mdash; he already had 19 in the Wings&rsquo; first 15 games &mdash; would make the Red Wing captain the third man in NHL annals to score 1,000 points. The two others are Howe and Beliveau.With those kind of figures you&rsquo;d expect Delvecchio would have had much more recognition. He hasn&rsquo;t and the nearly 37-year-old center &mdash; his birthday is Dec. 4 &mdash; doesn&rsquo;t seem unhappy about it. Matter of fact, Alex doesn&rsquo;t like a lot of fuss.He may go about his job unspectacularly but he goes about it-well. He makes few wasted motions. He knows where to go and when to go there. He&rsquo;s a fine passer, obviously, and has an excellent shot from the left boards. While working at left wing on the second line in several games this season he connected with searing shots from 30 feet out while hugging the boards.Delvecchio is happiest though at center and happiest with his longtime linemate, Howe. Add Frank Mahovlich on left wing and it&rsquo;s as fearsome a line as there is in the NHL with 1,366 career goals among them.Howe is aiming for No. 700 this season and after a quick goal start, slowed bit because of a back injury. Nevertheless, he continued playing and was as efficient as ever in setting up his teammates.The Big M enjoys their company, too &mdash; he had 11 goals after 15 games while Delvecchio had eight for one of his best starts in a career that has seen nine 20-goal seasons and 10 finishes in the top 10 of the scoring race.Alex isn&rsquo;t the only Delvecchio getting publicity in the Detroit sports pages these days. Son Kenny, 15, is doing well with the Catholic Central High School team.Alex credits his start this season to some minor surgery that corrected a painful situation. It was performed just prior to training camp &mdash; Delvecchio had put it off and put it off &mdash; so he got a late start in camp.&ldquo;It was a combination,&rdquo; Delvecchio said. &ldquo;I felt so much better after the surgery and then, because I was behind everyone else, I had to work harder to get in shape and get ready.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s some turnabout from a year ago when fans at Olympia got on him at the start of the season. Delvecchio fought back from that and scored 22 goals and had 70 points, his career high.If he can keep up this pace, he&rsquo;ll shatter all his records and perhaps, at long last, some folks will start noticing him.ICE CHIPS: Bruce MacGregor recently played his 500th career game &hellip; the redheaded right wing missed only one game in the last four seasons.The Wings returned defenseman Jim Watson to Baltimore after looking at Poul Popiel whom they acquired from Los Angeles for Ron Anderson. Gadsby likes what he&rsquo;s seen of Popiel so far.Three games in a four game stretch were decided in the final minute &hellip; the Wings got ties in two of them, pulling their goalie each time. &#9632;

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OVERLOOKED STAR DELVECCHIO RANKS WITH GREATS

For three seasons Dave Dryden has been shuffling back and forth between Chicago Black Hawks and their various minor league affiliates, waiting for chance to break into the mar jors in a full-time capacity.Always there were men like Glenn Hall and Denis DeJordy ahead of him, but with Hall gone to St. Louis Blues and DeJordy sent to the minors for non-productivity, Dryden has finally pounced on his chance to shine.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02578/2621574-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="255" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Dryden</figcaption></div>The Black Hawk goaltender was practically unbeatable last week, as he gave up only one goal in three games. Unfortunatelv for him, however, that one goal - a deflection by Bill McCreary &mdash; was enough for a 1-0 loss to St. Louis. But Dryden&rsquo;s other two outings were shutouts, 2-0 and 6-0, both over Minnesota North Stars.In neither of his shutouts did Dryden have an easy time of it. He was deluged with 41 shots in the 2-0 game, and handled 30 drives flawlessly in the 6-0 contest.El Producto and THE HOCKEY NEWS are pleased to salute the player-of-the-week in the East:Dave Dryden&hellip;Chicago &#9632;

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NHL Player Of The Week — IN THE EAST

Ed Joyal, who couldn&rsquo;t stick with Detroit or Toronto in previous NHL trials, has found permanent home in Los Angeles.The LA Kings&rsquo; centre was mainly responsible for his club&rsquo;s rise into second place in the Western Division behind St. Louis last week. He scored what proved to be the tieing goal in A 2-2 tie with Pittsburgh Penguins and then notched the insurance tally &mdash; his sixth of the campaign &mdash; in 3-1 Los Angeles victory over Philadelphia Flyers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03452/2621605-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="241" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Joyal</figcaption></div>Earlier in the week he set up Real Lemieux for the tie-breaking goal as the Kings jumped in front of the New York Rangers 2-1 in the second period, but the Rangers pulled the game out of the fire with three third-period markers.Last year Joyal led the Kings in scoring with 23 goals and 34 assists for 57 points, one of the top outputs by any Western Division player. And this season he appears to be taking up where he left off.El Producto and THE HOCKEY NEWS are pleased to salute the player-of-the-week in the West:Ed Joyal&hellip;Los Angeles &#9632;

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NHL Player Of The Week — IN THE WEST

<h2>Wed. Nov. 20 DETROIT 2 at MONTREAL 3</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties &mdash; R. Harris 2:28, R. Harris, Provost 13: 11, Rousseau 16:56.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Montreal, Beliveau (Harris, Provost) &hellip; 1:462&mdash;Montreal, Backetram (Cournoyer, Hillman) &hellip; 2:043&mdash;Detroit, Baun &hellip; 14:22Penalties &mdash; Douglas (major) 14:36, Ferguson (major, minor) 14:36, Howe 17:02<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Montreal, Cournoyer (Lemaire, Beliveau) &hellip; 10:565&mdash;Detroit, McGregor (Stomkowski) &hellip; 17:09Penalties R. Harris 8:57, Baun, 10:38.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01663/2621755-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="549" height="106"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH 2 at TORONTO 5</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Toronto, Koon (Ellis, Pelyk) &hellip; 6:28Penalty &mdash; Arbour 14:40<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Pittsburgh, Ubriaco (Boivin, McCallum) &hellip; 1:533&mdash;Pittsburgh, Dea (J. Pronovost, Ingarfield) &hellip; 16:24Penalties &mdash; Horton 0:50, Woytowich 3:12<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Toronto, Pulford, (Horton) &hellip; 3:295&mdash;Toronto, Mickey (Pulford, Carleton) &hellip; 6:476&mdash;Toronto, Keon (Pulford) &hellip; 19:387&mdash;Toronto, Ellis (Keon, Pulford) &hellip; 19:46Penalties &mdash; M. Pronovost 2:32, J. Pronovost 8:29, Horton 12:32.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02618/2621748-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="548" height="101"></div><h2>CHICAGO 2 at MINNESOTA 0</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>&mdash;Chicago, Marotte (Jarrett, Mikita) &hellip; 4:55Penalties &mdash; Marotte 2:41, Ravlich, O&rsquo;Shea 5:02, Marotte 5:16<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Chicago, Pappin (Stapleton) &hellip; 15:26Penalty &mdash; Cullen 7:18.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties &mdash; None.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03574/2621741-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="548" height="102"></div><h2>OAKLAND 0 at ST. LOUIS 7</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;St. Louis, B. Plager (Sabourin, St. Marseille) &hellip; 15:33Penalties &mdash; Perry 1:25, Berenson 12:57, Vadnais 18:28<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;St. Louis, Cameron (McCroary, Shock) &hellip; 2:313&mdash;St. Louis, Berenson (Barclay, Plager) &hellip; 17:45Penalties &mdash; None.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;St. Louis, Sabourin (St. Marseille, Crisp) &hellip; 4:485&mdash;St. Louis, McDonald (Berenson, Ecclestone) &hellip; 8:106&mdash;St. Louis, St. Marseille (Crisp, Sabourin) &hellip; 9:197&mdash;St. Louis, St. Marseille (Crisp, Harvey) &hellip; 14:27Penalties &mdash; B. Plager 11:21<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04524/2621734-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="543" height="100"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES 2 at NEW YORK 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;New York, Marshall (Goyette, Gilbert) &hellip; 2:02Penalties &mdash; Balon 1:55, Seiling 3:11, Neilson 5:55, Hadfield 9:50, Ratelie 14:30, Wall 19:21, Peters 19:38.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;New York, Howell (Goyette) &hellip; 315&mdash;New York, Goyette &hellip; 11:056&mdash;New York, Marshall (Goyette, Nevin) &hellip; 14:02Penalties &mdash; Fleming 4:21, Wall 6:18.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05430/2621727-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="542" height="102"></div>Thurs. Nov. 21<h2>MONTREAL 3 at PHILADELPHIA 0</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Montreal, Rousseau (Lemaire) &hellip; 12:38Penalties &mdash; Van Impe, 9:10, Harris 14:07.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Montreal, Ferguson (J. C. Tremblay) &hellip; 16:25Penalties &mdash; Ferguson 2:58, Van Impe 7:23.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Montreal, G. Tremblay (Beliveau) &hellip; 1:09Penalties &mdash; Hale, 5:15.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06365/2621720-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="553" height="104"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES 1 at BOSTON 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Les Angeles, Rett (Potors, White) &hellip; 13:52Penalties &mdash; Cahan 9:54, Cohan, Sanderson 12:46, Williams 13:26, Anderson, Joyal and Esposito, 18:01.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Boston, Stanfield (Smith, Bucyk) &hellip; 4:333&mdash;Boston, Shack (Esposito, Orr) &hellip; 9:204&mdash;Boston, Stanfield (Williams, Orr) &hellip; 18:36Penalties &mdash; Rolfe, 6:14, Green, 6:45, Potors 7:35, Krake 17:43.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Boston, Esposito (Williams, Smith) &hellip; 4:23Penalties &mdash; Esposito 5:07, Shack 17:20.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07336/2621713-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="547" height="102"></div><h2>OAKLAND 1 at PITTSBURGH 3</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Oakland, Ferguson &hellip; 16:54Penalties &mdash; Swarbrick 7:04, Boivin 8:39, Lacombe 18:58, McCallum 19:43.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Pittsburgh, Ubriaco (Pronovost, McCallum) &hellip; 4:143&mdash;Pittsburgh, Boivin &hellip; 5:58Penalties &mdash; Hicko 3:08, Vadnais 8:08, Roberts 17:52.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Pittsburgh, McCallum (Fonteyno, Burns) &hellip; 8:30Penalties &mdash; Woytowich 6:25, Vadnais, 16:48.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08316/2621706-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="544" height="103"></div>Sat. Nov. 23<h2>OAKLAND 2 at PHILADELPHIA 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Philadelphia, Rochefort (Johnson, Selby) &hellip; 0:20Penalty &mdash; Stanley 10:13.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Oakland, Ehman (Hampson) &hellip; 8:17Penalties &mdash; Brennan 4:50, Perry 10:15, Heiskala 13:56, 17:28.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Oakland, B. Watson (Jarrett) &hellip; 8:31Penalties &mdash; Kennedy 4:06, Jarrett 6:22, Peters, Marshall 10:24, Gendron 16:09.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09300/2621699-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="593" height="103"></div><h2>DETROIT 5 at TORONTO 2</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Detroit, Lawson (Libett, Unger) &hellip; 4:062&mdash;Detroit, Howe 14:37Penalties &mdash; Delvecchio 1:11, Dorey 8:01, Bergman 11:20, Baun 19:11.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Detroit, Howe (Bergman, Delvecchio) &hellip; 9:554&mdash;Detroit, Delvecchio (Bergman, Douglas) &hellip; 17:175&mdash;Toronto, Ullman (Henderson) &hellip; 19:31Penalties &mdash; Mickey 3:49, Henderson, Stomkowski 5:40, Pelyk 8:07, Sutherland 15:42, Harris 19:25.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>6&mdash;Detroit, Stomkowski (Douglas) &hellip; 15:177&mdash;Toronto, Dorey (Pulford) &hellip; 15:17Penalties &mdash; Baun 2:47, Stomkowski 7:08, Baun 13:37.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10279/2621692-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="568" height="108"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES 2 at PITTSBURGH 2</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties &mdash; Rolfe 3:30, Cahan 6:22, McCallum 19:26.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Pittsburgh, Fonteyno &hellip; 17:00Penalties &mdash; Boivin 1:47, McCallum 9:57.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Los Angeles, Krake (Hughes) &hellip; 4:183&mdash;Los Angelos, Joyal (Hott) &hellip; 14:574&mdash;Pittsburgh, Boyer (McCallum) &hellip; 18:52Penalties &mdash; Anderson 8:54, Hughes, Ingarfield 14:24.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11254/2621685-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="572" height="98"></div><h2>NEW YORK 1 at BOSTON 5</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Boston, McKenzie (Esposito, Awrey) &hellip; 9:572&mdash;New York, Gilbert (Nielson) &hellip; 11:003&mdash;Boston, Hodge (Awrey, Murphy) &hellip; 15:36Penalties &mdash; Howell 0:36, McKenzie 2:39, Balon 5:49, Fleming 5:49, Awrey 5:49, Fleming 8:04.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Boston, Doak (Sanderson) &hellip; 4:535&mdash;Boston, Stanfield (Orr) &hellip; 18:50Penalties &mdash; Sanderson, Giacomin 10:43, Fleming 14:35.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>6&mdash;Boston, Westfall (Sanderson, Shack) &hellip; 18:30Penalties &mdash; Marshall 3:52, Orr 5:29, Esposito 8:01, Awrey 9:12, Sanderson, Balon 13:56.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12221/2621678-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="571" height="99"></div><h2>MINNESOTA 3 at MONTREAL 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Minnesota, Grant (Larose, McKenzie) &hellip; 1:032&mdash;Montreal, Lemaire (Rousseau) &hellip; 17:24Penalties &mdash; None.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Montreal, Duff (Lomaire, Rousseau) &hellip; 2:514&mdash;Montreal, Provost (Ferguson) &hellip; 4:295&mdash;Minnesota, Cullen (Parise) &hellip; 12:23Penalties &mdash; Rousseau 18:10, McMahon 18:58.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>6&mdash;Montreal, Cournoyor (Beliveau, G. Tremblay) &hellip; 7:127&mdash;Minnesota, Parise (Connolly, Cullen) &hellip; 18:24Penalties &mdash; Ferguson 13:39.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13187/2621671-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="577" height="101"></div><h2>CHICAGO 0 at ST. LOUIS 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties &mdash; Pappin major 0:13, B. Plager 1:52, Cameron 5:01, Mohns 8:27, Jarrett 15:56.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalty &mdash; B. Hull 7:17.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;St. Louis, McCreary (R. Plager, Shock) &hellip; 10:10Penalties &mdash; None.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-14156/2621664-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="583" height="99"></div>Sun. Nov. 24<h2>Toronto 4 at BOSTON 7</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Boston, McKenzie (Bucyk, Stanfield) &hellip; 5:352&mdash;Boston, Stanfield (Bucyk, McKenzie) &hellip; 14:463&mdash;Boston, Esposito (Bucyk, Groen) &hellip; 19:14Penalties &mdash; Shack 1:42, Doak 7:44, Dorey, Shack (majors) 14:29, Pelyk 18:18.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Toronto, Ullman (Henderson) &hellip; 0:085&mdash;Boston, Murphy (Esposito, Hodge) &hellip; 0:106&mdash;Toronto, Mickey (Walton) &hellip; 13:077&mdash;Boston, Esposito (Hodge, Murphy) &hellip; 15:36Penalty &mdash; Esposito 14:13.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>8&mdash;Toronto, Ellis (Oliver, Keon) &hellip; 1:289&mdash;Toronto, Oliver (Ellis) &hellip; 1:4410&mdash;Boston, Esposito (Hodge, Murphy) &hellip; 14:1411&mdash;Boston, Hodge (Murphy, Esposito) &hellip; 19:36Penalties &mdash; Horton 3:06, Dorey 5:31, D. Smith 11:47.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-15127/2621657-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="572" height="98"></div><h2>OAKLAND 2 at NEW YORK 3</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;New York, Ratelie (Gilbert, Seiling) &hellip; 3:002&mdash;Oakland, Hampson (Swarbrick, Ehman) &hellip; 11:42Penalties &mdash; Vadnais, Marshall, Fleming, Balon (majors) 1:34, Neilson 11:04, Brenneman 15:25.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;New York, Stewart (Fleming, Tkaczuk) &hellip; 5:584&mdash;New York, Gilbert (Ratelie, Hadfield) &hellip; 8:285&mdash;Oakland, Ferguson (Penalty shot) &hellip; 10:00Penalties &mdash; Swarbrick 1:40, 10:43, Fleming 10:43, Hicke 13:03, Ratelle 17:38.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>Scoring &mdash; none.Penalties &mdash; Szura 10:13, Hadfield 1:30, Howell 16:06.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1688/2621650-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="575" height="103"></div><h2>MINNESOTA 0 at CHICAGO 6</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Chicago, Martin (Pappin, D. Hull) &hellip; 5:48Penalties &mdash; Hillman 1:21, Vasko 6:00, Martin 11:12, Larose, Maki 11:58.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Chicago, D. Hull (Pappin, Ravlich) &hellip; 3:18Penalties &mdash; Orban 3:43, Vasko 5:59, Connelly 10:43.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Chicago, Nesterenko (Maki, Ravlich) &hellip; 9:194&mdash;Chicago, Wharram (R. Hull) &hellip; 13:555&mdash;Chicago, Nesterenko &hellip; 18:116&mdash;Chicago, Wharram (Ravlich, Mikita) &hellip; 19:24Penalty &mdash; Jarrett 16:52.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1769/2621643-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="569" height="100"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES 3 at PHILADELPHIA 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties &mdash; Cahan 11:23, Gendron 12:53, Amadio 13:27.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Los Angelos, J. Peters (B. Hughes) &hellip; 16:16Penalties &mdash; None.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Philadelphia, Gendron (Hale, Lacroix) &hellip; 3:583&mdash;Los Angeles, Cahan &hellip; 10:384&mdash;Los Angeles, Joyal &hellip; 19:37Penalty &mdash; Miszuk 5:17.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1858/2621636-1-eng-US/f0013-182.jpg" title="f0013-18" width="572" height="97"></div> &#9632;

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National Hockey League Summaries

<h2>MONTREAL</h2>Goal, Worsley, Vachon. Defense, Laperriere, J.C Tremblay, Harris, Hillman, Savard, Forwards, Beliveau, G. Tremblay, Backstrom, Duff, Cournoyor, Provost, Rousseau, Richard Ferguson, Redmond, Lemaire.<h2>TORONTO</h2>Goal, Bower, Gamble, A. Smith. Defense, Pilote, Pronovost, Horton, Pelyk, Dorey, Ley. Forwards, Ellis, Ullman, Oliver, Keon, Mickey, Walton, F. Smith, Henderson, Pulford, Carleton.<h2>CHICAGO</h2>Goal, Dryden, Norris. Defense Marotte, Young, Reid, Ravlich, Stapleton. Forwards, Orban, Martin, Pappin, B. Hull, D. Hull, Mohns, Nesterenko, C. Maki, Wharram, Schmautz.<h2>NEW YORK</h2>Goal, Giacomin, Simmons. Defense, Howell, Brown, Hamilton, Neilson, Seiling. Forwards, Gilbert, Nevin, Fleming, Jeffrey, Hadfield, Stewart, Balon, Ratelle, Goyette, Marshall, Kurtenbach, Tkaczuk.<h2>DETROIT</h2>Goal, Crozier, Sawchuk. Defense, Baun, Douglas, Popiel, Bergman, Harris. Forwards, Unger, Howe, Delvecchio, F. Mahovlich, MacGregor, Libett, Lawson, Stemkowski, P. Mahovlich, Prentice.<h2>BOSTON</h2>Goal, Cheevers, Johnston. Defense, Orr, Green, Westfall, Smith, Doak, Awrey. Forwards, Esposito, Hodge, Bucyk, Williams, Sather, Sanderson, Stanfield, McKenzie, Shack, Murphy, Cashman, Bailey.<h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2>Goal, Parent, Favell Defense, Van Impe, Watson, miszuk, Stanley, Hale, Cherry, Forwards, Lacroix, Rochefort, Selby, Gendron, Nolet, Dornhoefer, Peters, Paiement, Heiskala, Johnson, Kennedy.<h2>OAKLAND</h2>Goal, Hodge, Smith, Worthy, Defense, Roberts, Vadnais, Lacombe, Watson, Marshall, Odrowski. Forwards, Harris, Ehmen, Hicke, Hampson, Jarrett, Swarbrick, Brenneman, Ferguson, Szura, Perry.<h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>Goal, Binkley, Daley. Defense, Boivin, Arbour, Price, McCallum, Woytowich. Forwards, Angotti, Fonteyne, Burns, Ingarfield, Ubriaco, Schinkel, Dea, Dillabough, Boyer, Pronovost, McCreary.<h2>ST-LOUIS</h2>Goal, Hall, Plante, Irons. Defense, Arbour, Bob Plager, Roberts, Barclay Plager, Talbot, Picard. Forwards, Berenson, St. Marseille, Schock, Sabourin, Ecclestone, McCreary, Cameron, Keenan, McDonald, Henry, Stankiewicz.<h2>MINNESOTA</h2>Goal, Maniago, Bauman. Defense, W. Hillman, McKenzie, Vasko, McCord, McMahon. Forwards, O&rsquo;Shea, Goldsworthy, Marcetta, Cullen, Parise, Connelly, Boudrias, Johnston, Larose, Collins, Grant.<h2>LOS ANGELES</h2>Goal, Rutledge, Desjardins. Defense, Wall, Amadio, Rolfe, B. Hughes, Cahan, White. Forwards, Krake, Peters, R. Lemieux, H. Hughes, MacDonald, Irvine, Joyal, Flett, Labossiere, Robinson, Anderson. &#9632;

NHL TEAM LINEUPS

(As Seen In the Montreal Gazette)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01660/2621810-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="492" height="479"><figcaption class="caption-body">VERN DEGEER</figcaption></div>Gorman Kennedy once made an observation about the late Vern DeGeer that told a good deal about him in a single sentence. Gorman was then general manager of the Alouettes and Vern had accompanied the team on a trip out west.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the only sports writer I know,&rdquo; said Gorman when they arrived back in Montreal, &ldquo;who holds his own press conferences.&rdquo;What he meant, of course, was that every time he visited Vern&rsquo;s hotel room it was filled with newspaper guys. He was gregarious by nature, happiest when he was with his friends and he had more of them, probably because of it, than is the good fortune of most of us.He was born in Saskatoon, the city he always referred to as &ldquo;you know where,&rdquo; and he went to work in the sports department of the Star-Phoenix as soon as he got out of college. He had played both football and basketball and managed the hockey team at the University of Saskatchewan, and he knew what he was writing about.A lot of great hockey players &mdash; Newsy Lalonde, Dick Irvin, Frank Fredrickson, Frank Boucher, Bill and Bun Cook, Red Dutton, etc. &mdash; were playing professional hockey out west at the time and that&rsquo;s when he first met them. It was an advantage when he came east in 1929 to work for the Border Cities Star, now the Windsor Star.He knew top jockeys like Johnny Longden and Georgie Wolfe when they were campaigning on what he called the &ldquo;leaky roof circuit out there, and a great ball player like Babe Herman when he played in the old Western Canada League. He knew the football players and the boxers, too, so he was writing out of a pretty complete background.He kept in touch with guys he met along the way, which must have made him one of the most prodigious letter writers since Lord Chesterfield. The letters were invariably amusing, usually containing an anecdote or two about mutual friends.He liked gags, as we know from first hand. One summer vacation we went on a salmon fishing trip, which didn&rsquo;t turn out to be very productive. Wen we arrived back in Fredericton, N.B., there was a small package waiting for us. It was a tin of salmon from you know who.He could tell a story well, especially if it was at his own expense. One of his friends in Windsor was John Chick, former president of the American Hockey League. One day they agreed to meet in a Detroit railway station to entrain for Cleveland to see a hockey game.The Detroit station has a long steep ramp leading down to the platform. On the platform, both confessed they were hungry. Although the train was waiting, Vern volunteered to go back up the ramp and get a couple of hot-dogs. If the train showed signs of moving, John was to holler at him.At the top of the ramp, Vern looked back and saw John with his hands cupped to his mouth, shouting at him. He immediately took off down the ramp, but when he reached the platform the train was still standing there and John was looking sheepish.&ldquo;All said was put mustard on mine,&rdquo; he explained, but I guess you couldn&rsquo;t hear me.&rdquo;He left Windsor to become sports editor of the Toronto Globe & Mail in 1938 and that&rsquo;s when we met him. He wasn&rsquo;t a &ldquo;knock&rdquo; writer and it came as a surprise when he stepped out of character one day to put the blast on Dan Howley, then general manager of the Toronto ball club. It was later revealed that it had been something of a command performance, but it bothered Vern for a long time.&ldquo;I should have said no, even if it meant my job,&rdquo; he told us. &ldquo;I like Dan and what&rsquo;s happening to the ball club isn&rsquo;t his fault. I&rsquo;ve already apologized to him. but that won help much. I regret the thing now more than he does.&rdquo;He fought the malady that killed him for long time, but it wasn&rsquo;t fair fight. He was in and out of the hospital lot and he continued to write as long as he could, even from his hospital room, but you knew he was losing when he couldn&rsquo;t go to Saskatoon last summer to see his mother. He was bit ecstatic when the Detroit Tigers won the American League pennant this year.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m the only writer left who covered the Tigers in the 1930s,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m all set to go to the World Series. Got my reservations and everything.But that wasn&rsquo;t to be, either. He went back into hospital and watched the opening game on television. He fell asleep in the second inning. A little later his youngest son, Derek, came into the office and cleaned out his desk. He won&rsquo;t be holding his own press conference this week before the Grey Cup game, which used to give him so much pleasure. But he out of pain now and someone else described pleasure as an absence of pain. &#9632;

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Late Vern DeGeer A Popular Figure

<div class="byline">BY LOU PRATO</div>PITTSBURGH, Pa. &mdash;Losing is never fun.&ldquo;It feels like hell,&rdquo; says Noel Price of the Pittsburgh Pengguins. And he should know. He plays defense on what has been losingest team in the National Hockey League.With nearly one fourth of the NHL season gone, the Penguins had won just two games and tied two. They were deep in last place in the Western Division and were slowly moving closer to oblivion for the current season. A Six-game losing streak had all but demoralized them.You get a bit of a negative attitude when you&rsquo;re losing&rdquo; Noel Price said. &ldquo;You figure you can&rsquo;t do anything right no matter how hard you try. And believe me we&rsquo;re trying hard to win. We just can&rsquo;t get over the hump.&rdquo;The mood of the Penguins is typifield by Price&rsquo;s remarks. To a man the Pittsburgh players swear they&rsquo;re a better hockey club than their record shows. They admit that they sometimes did not play good enough to win in the team&rsquo;s first 16 games. But they also feel there were times when they beat their opponent in everything but the final score.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not that bad&rsquo;&rdquo; says defenseman Dune McCallum. &ldquo;We just can&rsquo;t seem to get that extra bit of luck. We&rsquo;re trying.&rdquo;It could be that the Penguins are trying too hard, letting the pressure of the need to win overcome their normal actions.&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;re pressing,&rdquo; admits forward Gene Ubriaco. &ldquo;I think that&rsquo;s evident by our passing. It simply isn&rsquo;t sharp. It&rsquo;s too ragged and as a result we miss many good opportunities.&rdquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt that shoddy passing has been partly responsible for the Penguins defeats. But a lack of aggressiveness also must be blamed.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01635/2621841-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="555" height="579"><figcaption class="caption-body">NOEL PRICE&hellip; Not Good Feeling</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not mean enough,&rdquo; says an angry Coach Red Sullivan. &ldquo;We let the other guys push us around too often.&rdquo;When it was suggested that the Penguins individually are not big enough to consistently match muscle for muscle and survive, Sullivan exploded:&ldquo;They&rsquo;re big enough if they&rsquo;ve got a hockey stick in their hands. You don&rsquo;t have to be big in size to throw you weight around. You use your stick and you fight back. You don&rsquo;t let the other guy get away with something without fighting back.&rdquo;Perhaps Sullivan is right. There have been several games when hard checking and steady rough-housing have made them look equal &mdash; if not superior &mdash; to their opponent. But, still, they lose.&ldquo;When you start losing you get some type of psychological barrier,&rdquo; says center Earl Ingarfield, the team captain. &ldquo;You just can&rsquo;t seem to win no matter what you do.&ldquo;I remember when I was with the Rangers a few years ago. We lost 11 or 12 in a row. We were in first place at Christmas time, then hit this streak and just recovered in time to make the playoffs. All we needed was one win to get us started. And that&rsquo;s what we need now.The schedule undoubtedly has worked against the Penguins and aggravated their dismal condition. Of the Penguins&rsquo; first 16 games, 10 have been against the established Eastern Division teams. Sullivan refuses to use this as an excuse, saying. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re all in the National hockey League.&rdquo;But the Penguins this year are different from last year&rsquo;s team with nearly ten new men added to the lineup. It takes time to get cohesion and Pittsburgh&rsquo;s schedule has not allowed the luxury of time needed for development. In Pittsburgh&rsquo;s case it would have been better if the Penguins had met teams in their own division first.Of the ten games against the East, only once &mdash; against Boston &mdash; were the Penguins completely outplayed. &#9632;

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Penguin Players Convinced They’re Better Than Record

<div class="byline">BY ED CRANE</div>SPOKANE, Wash. &mdash;The Western International Hockey League&rsquo;s season is only about 30&rsquo;, over, and a lot can happen between now and play-off time next spring, but it&rsquo;s beginning to look as though the pre-season predictions of dominance by the Spokane Jets were correct.Right now the Jets, with a 10-2-2 record, are well ahead of the Nelson Maple Leafs who are 8-5-0. The Jets have pulled ahead under trying conditions, also, as they&rsquo;ve had key members laid low by injuries and suspensions. They&rsquo;ve shown amazing balance, however &mdash; their top scorer is Dave Toner with 7 goals, followed by Gordy Turlik with 6, and then no less than eight players with 4 or 5 apiece. The Jets also boast the league&rsquo;s leading goaltender in Dave Cox, with a 3.07 average.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02570/2621896-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="244" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave McComb</figcaption></div>The Maple Leafs are somewhat of an enigma. On paper, they have a very strong offense. They&rsquo;ve scored 17 more goals than the Jets in one less game. They have the league&rsquo;s leading point-scorer in coach Dave McComb, and he&rsquo;s followed closely by Murray Owen, Leroy Mowery, and Gary McQuaid. In Dave Halme and Bill McDonell the Leafs have two of the best goaltenders in the league &mdash; Halme led the league in shutouts last year as well as having the best goals-against average. In spite of all this, the Leafs aren&rsquo;t really making it. One big reason may be simply that their goal productions comes in spurts &mdash; they&rsquo;ve beaten the Trail Smoke Eaters 9-1, Kimberly Dynamiters 6-1, and Drumheller Miners 12-4. &#9632;

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Spokane Jets Making Prophets Of Experts

ASK YOUR DEALER ABOUT LOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKS (FORMERLY WALLY) (Hockey sticks distributed in the U.S. through the Hillerich & Brodsby Co.)ASK YOUR DEALER ABOUT LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS (FORMERLY WALLY) (Hockey sticks distributed in the U.S. through the Hillerich & Bradsby Co.) &#9632;

AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK SANTANIELLO</div>SPRINGFIELD, Mass. &mdash;The Springfield Kings were dealt a serious setback to their defenses when popular Poul Popiel was traded by the parent Los Angeles Kings to the Detroit Red Wings. But the Kings are due to have Gerry Foley back in action, after he decided to retire in training camp.&ldquo;It should be the ambition of every player,&rdquo; John Wilson, Kings&rsquo; mentor, explained, &ldquo;in hockey to make the National Hockey League. I&rsquo;m really glad Popiel is getting a chance to make it. The NHL is really the only place to play.&rdquo;Popiel, 25-year-old Denmark born player, was supposed to make the Los Angeles Kings the last two seasons. But he didn&rsquo;t, being kept this fall until the final day of camp before he was sent back here. He was drafted by the Los Angeles outfit last season.Poul potted eight goals with 28 assists last season. He began slow but came on strong last year here. He was turned pro by the Chicago Black Hawks after a distinguished Junior A career with St. Catherines. Popiel also played in the AHL with both Buffalo and Hershey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01481/2621951-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="544" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERRY FOLEY&hellip; Quits retirement</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Foley should help to perk up our offense,&rdquo; Wilson stated. &ldquo;He always works hard on the ice and if he can get us a few goals, he should help to pick up our offense. Gerry is a smart, old pro to have on the ice.&rdquo;He could not see too much action with the Kings since he was out of action for some time. Instead, he put in plenty of skating and scrimmage work with area college teams while the Kings were on their extended road trip.Foley was the top scorer with the Kings this past season. He potted more than his share of goals, dug the puck out of the corners and in general showed the young kids on the team just how it should be done.In fact, it was quite surprising during training camp to see Foley abruptly retire and go back home to Canada. Apparently, whatever personal problems he had back home were resolved. Soon, he&rsquo;ll be ready for play with the Kings.Foley will make the second helmet-wearer on the ice for the Kings. The other is veteran Jimmy Anderson, who sports a purple and gold one, incidentally the team&rsquo;s colors. In addition, both are the oldest players on the team &hellip; and the only ones to wear a helmet. &#9632;

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Foley Set To Rejoin Kings After Popiel Removed By L.A. Trade

<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 26)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02409/2621982-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="613" height="391"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues. Nov. 19Springfield 7 at Baltimore 9Fri. Nov. 22Hershey 1 at Baltimore 2Sat. Nov. 23Buffalo 3 at Cleveland 1Springfield 1 at Hershey 4Sun. Nov. 24Springfield 3 at Buffalo 3Hershey 1 at Providence 1Baltimore 3 at Quebec 1Cleveland 1 at Rochester 4<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tues. Nov. 26Baltimore at QuebecWed. Nov. 27Rochester at BuffaloSpringfield at ClevelandProvidence at HersheyThurs. Nov. 28Cleveland at BaltimoreQuebec at ProvidenceBuffalo at RochesterFri. Nov. 29Hershey at SpringfieldSt. Nov. 30Providence at BaltimoreQuebec at ClevelandRochester at HersheyBuffalo at SpringfieldSun. Dec. 1Baltimore at BuffaloSpringfield at ProvidenceCleveland at QuebecHershey at Rochester &#9632;

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ASK YOUR DEALER ABOUT LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS (FORMERLY WALLY) (Hockey sticks distributed in the U.S. through the Hillerich & Brodsby Co.)ASK YOUR DEALER ABOUT LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS (FORMERLY WALLY) (Hockey sticks distributed in the U.S. through the Hillerich & Bradsby Co.)<h2>TUES. NOV. 19 SPRINGFIELD 7 at BALTIMORE 9</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Baltimore, Bartlett (Watson) &hellip; 2:542&mdash;Springfield, Inglis (Mcinally) &hellip; 3:313&mdash;Springfield, Corrigan (Murray) &hellip; 4:174&mdash;Springfield, Inglis (Murray) &hellip; 7:225&mdash;Baltimore, Mortson (Brinkworth, Blackburn) &hellip; 12:546&mdash;Baltimore, Cunningham (Bartlett) &hellip; 15:097&mdash;Baltimore, Marshall (Hicks, Speer) &hellip; 19:07Penalties &mdash; Pagnutti 7:09, Brown 13:34, Rothwell 18:37.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>8&mdash;Baltimore, Hicks (Marshall, Cossette) &hellip; 0:219&mdash;Springfield, Dufour (Menard) &hellip; 5:2210&mdash;Springfield, Campbell (Corrigan, Pagnuti) &hellip; 19:12.Penalties &mdash; Mortson, McInally 5:39, Menard 16:19.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>11&mdash;Springfield, Prior (Inglis) &hellip; 2:4912&mdash;Baltimore, McGregor (Cunningham, Bartlett) &hellip; 8:0513&mdash;Springfield, Inglis (Prior) &hellip; 11:0914&mdash;Baltimore, Hicks (Cossette, Marshall) &hellip; 13:4315&mdash;Baltimore, Brinkworth (Mortson, Balckburn) &hellip; 14:2216&mdash;Baltimore, Mortson (Blackburn) &hellip; 19:56Penalties &mdash; Turlik 4:21, Cunningham 15:22.Shots by: Springfield 36; Baltimore 48.ATTENDANCE: 8,712.<h2>Fri. Nov. 22 HERSHEY 2 at BALTIMORE 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Baltimore, Cossette (Marshall) &hellip; 16:442&mdash;Hershey, Gilbertson &hellip; 18:10Penalties &mdash; Watson 3:08, Harvey, Watson 7:46, Gilbertson 12:25, Speer, 13:35, Mahoney, 16:22,McNabb, 19:42.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>No scoringPenalties &mdash; Ashbee, 5:15, Bailey, 13:55, Keller, Cossette, 14:17.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Baltimore, Cossette (Marshall, Hicks) &hellip; 15:30Penalties &mdash; Watson 3:49, 18:33, Hicks, Leiter, 12:30, Mortson, Ashbee 16:20, Ashbee 18:33.Shots by Hershey 39, Baltimore 38.ATTENDANCE: 5,708.<h2>SAT. NOV. 23 SPRINGFIELD 1 at HERSHEY 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Hershey, Mahoney (Bailey, Leiter) &hellip; 15:59Penalties &mdash; Keller 7:33, McNabb, Corrigan 10:50, Mcinally 12:45.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>No scoring.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Springfield, Croteau (Mcinally, Inglis) &hellip; 6:183&mdash;Hershey, Bailey (Cashman, Keller) &hellip; 11:194&mdash;Hershey, Cashman (Leiter, Mahoney) &hellip; 16:485&mdash;Hershey, Bailey (Ashbee, Leiter) &hellip; 17:43Penalties &mdash; None.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03324/2622048-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="584" height="96"></div><h2>BUFFALO 3 at CLEVELAND 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Buffalo, Hannigan (Rivers, Jones) &hellip; 9:38Penalties &mdash; Hornung 2:45, Fedun 9:01, 15:54, Park and Rypp 9:19, Villemure 12:18.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Cleveland, Sentes &hellip; 9:053&mdash;Buffalo, Park (Hannigan, Knibbs) &hellip; 14:12Penalties &mdash; Rupp 6:36, Kassian 11:14, Jones and Monahan 16:43, Park and Berry 17:43.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Buffalo, Beaudin (Hannigan, Blackburn) &hellip; 6:36Penalties &mdash; Kassian 0:16, Hextall, Park, Sentes, Rupp majors 9:52.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04257/2622041-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="576" height="100"></div><h2>Sun. Nov. 24 BALTIMORE 3 at QUEBEC 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Quebec, Dufour (Edestrand, Drolet) &hellip; 11:512&mdash;Baltimore, Hicks (Cossette, Marshall) &hellip; 19:50Penalties &mdash; Pelletier 2:55, Drolet 4:25. Polano 7:44, Arbour 11:15, 15:51, Laforge 12:29, Blackburn 14:06, Rivard 15:51, Bernier 16,34, 18:48.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Baltimore, McGregor (Blackburn, Brinkworth) &hellip; 10:54Penalties &mdash; Blackburn 5:48, 15:37, McKillop, Arbour9:32, Bernier, Cates, MacQueen 15:37.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Baltimore, Blackburn &hellip; 1:27Penalties &mdash; None.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05189/2622034-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="591" height="96"></div><h2>HERSHEY 1 at PROVIDENCE 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties &mdash; Leduc 2:49, Ashbee, Goegan 8:54, Gilbertson, Kachur 10:20, R. Koller, Leduc 10:30,Nykoluk, Muloin 17:36.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Hershey, DeJordy (Nykoluk) &hellip; 3:29Penalties &mdash; Macks 6:36, Harvey 11:51, Goegan 18:22.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Providence, Creighton (Meissner, Mantha) &hellip; 6:44Penalties &mdash; None.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-06153/2622027-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="580" height="97"></div><h2>SPRINGFIELD 3 at BUFFALO 3</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Buffalo, Trottier (Hextali, Kassian) &hellip; 2:362&mdash;Buffalo, Hannigan (Rivers, Knibbs) &hellip; 19:11Penalties &mdash; Menard 6:06, 10:15, Corrigan, Hextall 8:02, Campbell 17:52.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Springfield, Croteau (Menard) &hellip; 16:39Penalty &mdash; Inglis 10:52<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Buffalo, Knibbs (Hannigan, Hornung) &hellip; 1:345&mdash;Springfield, Turlik (Murray) &hellip; 3:596&mdash;Springfield, Dufour (Menard, Croteau) &hellip; 12:15Penalty &mdash; Tisler 4:55.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-07140/2622020-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="581" height="104"></div><h2>CLEVELAND 1 at ROCHESTER 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties &mdash; Armstrong 4:10, Armstrong, Harper, majors 19:59.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Rochester, Cook (Horvath, McCarthy) &hellip; 10:392&mdash;Rochester, Sillers (Kilrea, Watson) &hellip; 11:303&mdash;Rochester, Gamble (Mosdelk Ward) &hellip; 19:08Penalty &mdash; Cook 19:30.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Cleveland, Vanderburg &hellip; 9:095&mdash;Rochester, Watson (Kilrea, Reaume) &hellip; 15:23Penalty &mdash; Mosdell 18:07.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-08128/2622013-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="585" height="126"></div> &#9632;

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American League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY SHEL FULLERTON</div>CLEVELAND, O. &mdash;Jackie Gordon has come back to the Cleveland Barons.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01396/2622079-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="562" height="572"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACKIE GORDON&hellip; Resigns NHL Position</figcaption></div>A former player, coach and general manager who made his hockey niche here in Cleveland, Gordon has resigned his position of assistant general manager with the New York Rangers of the NHL to accept the dual role of general manager and coach with the Barons.Club owner Nick Mileti announced that Gordon has consented to take over the reins of the Barons from Floyd &lsquo;Busher&rsquo; Curry, who is returning to the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; organization.Curry became coach of the Barons when Mileti bought control of the club from Paul Bright in September. The Barons were without a coach during training camp and Curry was sent by Montreal to fill in until a permanent coach could be named. When the Barons didn&rsquo;t sign veteran Bill Needham as coach, Mileti gave the job to Curry.Gordon served as manager-coach of the Barons before moving up to the Rangers few years back.Gordon, meanwhile, will take over a rookie club on his return.The Barons currently are carrying 13 players who are brand new to the team, another (Jim Mikol) who has been away from the club for four years and still another (Ernie Wakely) who was not with them last season. An even dozen of their players never have played previously in the AHL. Seven of them are fresh from the amateur ranks.Never before in the club&rsquo;s history has the old expression, &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t tell the players without program,&rdquo; been so true.Maybe it is the huge turnover of personnel that brought it about, or maybe it is just that new owner Mileti thought it would be good idea to steal a page from many baseball and football teams &mdash; the fact remains that the Barons have become one of the few hockey teams in history, to identify its players with their names on the backs of their uniforms.Fans should like it. It will help them identify with players much more readily than in the past. In Cleveland, there is plenty of identifying to be done.New men to the Barons this season include spare goalie Michel Plasse, defensemen Duane Rupp, Pierre Bouchard and Murray Hegel, centers Gary Monahan, Mike Laughton and Rey Comeau and wingers Moe St. Jacques, Ken Kelly, Marshall Johnston, Brian Harper, John Vanderburg and Bob Berry. &#9632;

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Jackie Gordon Returns To Barons In Dual Role

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y. &mdash;&ldquo;Tis strange, but true; for truth is always strange, stranger &mdash; than fiction.George Noel Gordon, better known as Lord Byron, was Knocking about bit before the Rochester Americans, but his passage above from Don Juan certainly would cover what has been happening to the Amerks this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02347/2622110-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="270" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bronco Horvath</figcaption></div>Here the Amerks are on the morning of Nov. 13 headed for Providence saddled with a club record tying six straight losses. They had scored a mere 13 goals in the six defeats while giving up 35. They had yet to win on the road in seven tries this season and they had failed to score a goal in the first period in their five previous road outings.So what happens? With player-coach Dick Gamble collecting his 15th American League hat trick before the game is 11 &frac12; minutes old, the Amerks pour in five goals in the first 11 &frac12; minutes and romp to an 8-1 win.Now it&rsquo;s two nights later in Rochester. The Amerks suddenly find themselves down to three defensemen when Toronto recalls Jim McKenny and the medics order Jack Chiphase to remain off skates with bad knee.The Americans have had enough troubles defensively without this, and now Gamble has only Marc Reaume, Warren Godfrey and Claude Labrosse on hand with a three-game weekend coming up.Wayne Mosdell, who played in the AHL briefly with Springfield two years ago but who was ruled a free agent in October when the Los Angeles Kings failed to offer him a contract, is signed.Gamble doesn&rsquo;t know whether or not mosdell has been on skates since training camp, but he plans to use him as a regular if he gets here in time. But Wayne, whose father Ken was Gamble&rsquo;s center on a line for the Montreal Canadiens back in the early &lsquo;50s, runs into problems at customs.Gamble puts him in the lineup anyway, then shifts his leading goal scorer &mdash; Ron Ward &mdash; back from center to defense. Ron responds by firing his ninth goal of the season, this time from right defense. He plays a regular shift and isn&rsquo;t on for any goals against.But Rochester is down 3-1 after two periods, and now Mosdell arrives. He suits up, skates during the intermission and takes a regular turn in the third period.The Amerks roar back for three goals as Bronco Horvath, who hadn&rsquo;t scored in his last 23 regular season and playoff games for Rochesters, knocks in one goal and sets up the equalizer 38 seconds later. &#9632;

f0017-02

Americans Pull Odd Ice Moves

<div class="byline">BY GEORGE DUFFY</div>PROVIDENCE, R.I. &mdash;Ross Brooks is a 31 year old standby goaltender who suddenly has found himself playing regularly for the R.I. Reds.With veteran Marcel Paille shelved with a shoulder injury, the 5-9 Brooks has filled the gap and in the process played some terrific hockey, sometimes under heavy odds.At this writing, the Reds were deadlocked for first place in the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Eastern Division with 17 points gained on eight victories, and one tie.Brooks was in goal for the Reds in five of a those triumphs and with each passing game. the likeable native of Toronto admits &ldquo;I feel more confident.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-07139/2622141-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="259" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ross Brooks</figcaption></div>It has not been easy for Brooks. Being the backup goalie behind Paille, Brooks has been looked upon by the fans as a good fill in but hardly one who could be considered for a regular job. Ross does not agree and has dedicated himself to proving that he belongs.In the course of the Providence schedule, Brooks has felt the pangs of a solid trouncing. On Wednesday, November 13, Rochester belted the Reds and Brooks, 8-1 here at R.I. Auditorium. Ross heard the wolves howling for his scalp.But this easy going guy who is a manager of a swimming and tennis club during the summer in Lincoln, R.I., came back on Sunday, November 17 and gained a big 6-4 triumph for the Reds over the improving Cleveland Barons. He made at least 10 big saves.While Brooks is eager to be the No. 1 goalie for the Reds, he still holds the deepest respect for Paille. Likewise, Ross never questions the judgment of Player-Coach Dave Creighton. &ldquo;When Dave says play, I play,&rdquo; points out Brooks,&rdquo; and when he says sit on the bench, I sit and yell to pep up my teammates during the action. &#9632;

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Brooks Stickout Taking Over Reds Net Job

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY, Pa. &mdash;The latest strategy of the Hershey Bears&rsquo; opponents is obvious stop the high scoring line of Michel Harvey, Gil Gilbert and Chuck Hamilton and you stop the Bears.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03284/2622172-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="271" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank mathers</figcaption></div>In four oi five games from Nov. 6 to Nov. 16, the opposition threw a close-checking game at Gilbert Co. and coach Frank Mathers&rsquo; crew lost three, escaping with a tie in the other shinny match.As evidence to the opponent&rsquo;s strategy consider that in Hershey&rsquo;s first eight games, Gilbert and his linemates compiled a whopping 48 points on 19 goals and 29 assists to lead the club to seven victories and top spot in the American League&rsquo;s Eastern Division. Harvey had three game winners in the stretch.The line&rsquo;s individual point breakdown in the eight game span was: Harvey, 9-8-17; Gilbert, 8-8-16, and Hamilton, 2-13 15.But from Nov. 6 to Nov. 16, excluding a 4-1 win over Baltimore, Nov. 9, the line showed only four goals and six assists. In a 7-4 loss to Buffalo Nov. 10 and a 3-3 tie against Cleveland, Nov. 13, the line was shutour.Mathers is well aware the Bears other line combinations are going to have to deliver if the outfit is to regain its early winning pace.The Bears, who played at an .833 winning clip in Oct with 5-1 record, dropped to .500 in the first seven games in Nov. with a 3-3-1 mark.After playing at least one game against the seven other AHL clubs, Mathers tabbed the Buffalo Bisons as the club to beat in the chase for the league crown.&ldquo;Buffalo looks the strongest of all the others clubs so far,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We had them down 3-2 after a period of play in our last game against them and they stormed out in the second period to score three quick ones and beat us.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Mathers Seeks More Production As AHL Clubs Muffle Big Line

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO, N.Y. &mdash;The Buffalo Bisons established two records in the modern history of the club as they moved into an early lead in the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Western Division.A 4-1 win at home over Quebec gave the Bisons an eight-game winning streak, and they had a six-game unbeaten record on the road with an overall record of 10-2-1 as this edition of The Hockey News went to press.The Bisons outscored the opposition, 36-14, over the eight-game winning streak, and the goals-against record was the key to the spurt.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04222/2622217-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="260" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gilles Villemure</figcaption></div>Gilles Villemure, generally recognized as the No. 1 goalie in the AHL, had the only two shutouts in the league as this was written, and had allowed only 25 goals in the club&rsquo;s 13 games.Villemure, a harness race driver in Quebec during the off-season, was getting fine support from his defensemen, and from group of forwards going both ways.An injury to Captain Ron Ingram, however, threatened to hamper the defense corps. Ingram was sidelined with a bruished knee, and a cast, from his ankle to his thigh, was used to keep the knee immobile.<h2>AHL Point Race</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05179/2622210-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="575" height="573"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-06151/2622203-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="588" height="480"></div> &#9632;

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Bisons On Record Spree As Herd Clings To Lead

<div class="byline">BY JOHN WHITE</div>SEATTLE, Wash. &mdash;Considering everything that had gone wrong, it was rather remarkable that the Seattle Totems were still in championship contention in the Western Hockey League in mid-November when they were seven points back of first-place San Diego.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01402/2622248-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="249" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Head</figcaption></div>And for the club that has won the Lester Patrick Cup the last two seasons in row, a whole bunch of things, indeed, had gone wrong.First there was (or, more correctly, wasn&rsquo;t) goaltender Don Head.First All Star last season and owner of the lowest career goals-against average in Western League history, the Big Bear started strong this season &mdash; 2.00 for his first two games. Then a collision in front of the Totems nets sprained ligaments in Head&rsquo;s already damaged left knee.(A Seattle doctor, incidentally, recently looked at X-rays of Head&rsquo;s knees without knowing who it was. The doctor&rsquo;s first comment was, &ldquo;Well, I know one thing. The fellow isn&rsquo;t walking.&rdquo;)Head was out of action for almost a month. His initial return to action was brief, too. He had shut out San Diego for 17 minutes when, enraged by a penalty call against him, Head fired his stick and took off after the referee, Wally Harris.Box score: Minor, misconduct, game misconduct, $200 fine and one-game suspension.After sitting out the suspension, Head returned to action again and stopped hot Vancouver, 3-2, lowering his goals-against mark for his short season to 2.07.If Head stays healthy &mdash; and out of trouble &mdash; he will prove a big lift to the Totems.But goaltending wasn&rsquo;t the biggest problem of MacFarland since young Jim Armstrong had filled in capably (3.01 goals against mark) in carrying the whole load he shared last season with Head.The big problem was goals. The Totems were the lowest-scoring team in the league last season. And in mid-November they were off to the same start in this campaign.You could almost hear barrister MacFarland &ldquo;Look, you guys, is it asking the impossible that you score three goals in a single game?&rdquo;Three goals? The magic figure for Seattle, that&rsquo;s what. After 19 games, the Totems had lost only once in a game in which they had scored three times. With a 7-8-4 record in the standings, Seattle wasn&rsquo;t doing this too often. They scored more than two goals only five times, in fact, in their first 16 games.The big and really astounding failure was that of the touted Art Stratton-Bill Dineen-Jim Powers line.Guyle Fielder. Bob Courcy and rookie Jack Michie were playing quite well together, thank you, ranking 1st, 7th and 11th in WHL scoring after seven weeks ans accounting for 21 of Seattle&rsquo;s first 49 goals.The hard-checking, penalty-killing line of Chuck Holmes, Gerry Leonard and Marc Boileau was doing everything expected of it. Boileau even scored five goals in 19 games, almost matching his total of six during the entire past season.But Stratton, Dineen and Powers &mdash; who had looked so good together in training camp?After 18 games, Dineen had four goals, Powers had three goals and Stratton still hadn&rsquo;t scored a goal in the Western Hockey League since he left Winnipeg a decade ago.Stratton, three times a league scoring champion &mdash; twice Central and once American &mdash; in the last four seasons just couldn&rsquo;t get started in the Western League.He had missed the first two games while holding out for the Bank of America. After being issued only part of the bank in return for his signature, he put on uniform.He had one assist in his first five games. Then he collected seven assists in six games and seemed to be on his way. Then he was blanked for six more games in a row.It added to eight points in 17 games for a fellow who scored 109 points for Buffalo in &lsquo;65 &hellip; 94 points for St. Louis in &lsquo;66 and 90 points for St. Louis in &lsquo;67.Bad wingers? Dineen, a 1,000 game plus pro veteran, paced Seattle in goals last season with 28. Powers scored 28 goals for the Totems two years ago, 28 goals for Seattle three years ago.If Stratton, Dineen and Powers started clicking &mdash; and they should &mdash; the Totems could prove as strong as any team in the league. &#9632;

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Head Given Fine, Suspension For Chasing Ref

<h2>Wed. Nov. 13 PORTLAND 6 at DENVER 6</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Denver, Vejprava (Martin) &hellip; 0:472&mdash;Denver, Picard (Hoekstra, Holdaway) &hellip; 7:033&mdash;Denver, Velprava &hellip; 8:244&mdash;Portland, Johnson (Schmauti, Jones) &hellip; 19:56Penalties &mdash; Donaldson 3:14, D. Carter 9:35, Holdaway 11:20, Mavety 19:07, Goegan 19:41.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Denver, Lemieux (Goegan, Carter) &hellip; 3:316&mdash;Portland, Schmauti (Van Impe, Hay) &hellip; 5:587&mdash;Denver, Veiprava (B. Carter, Martin) &hellip;12:548&mdash;Denver, B. Carter (Veljprava, Mavety) &hellip; 17:219&mdash;Portland John (Van Impe, Saunders) &hellip; 19:07Penalties &mdash; Saunders 0:35, Schmauti 11:51, Miller 10:02, Schmauti 11:51, Mavety 18:29<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>10&mdash;Portland, Saunders (Jones, Madigan) &hellip; 10:0411&mdash;Portland, Saunders (Johnson, Van Impe) &hellip; 14:3212&mdash;Portland, Saunders (Jone, Madigan) &hellip; 16:12Penalties &mdash; Vejprava 13:50.Saves: Kelly, 23; McLeod, 7; Farr, 20.ATTENDANCE 1,372<h2>THURS. NOV. 14 SEATTLE 3 at SAN DIEGO 3</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>I&mdash;San Diego, Hilts (Hynes, O&rsquo;Ree) &hellip; 17:40Penalties &mdash; Kilpatrick 14; Boileau, 6:31; Hunt, 10: 10; Kilpatrick 15:57; Head (minor served by Rogers),(misconduct served by lannone, (game misconduct) 6:37.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;San Diego, MacMillan (Hynes, Hilts) &hellip; 11:273&mdash;Seattle, Holmes (Leonard, Boileau) &hellip; 16:50Penalties &mdash; Huculak, 13; Richardson, 8:19, Ward, 12:47; Huculak 14:56.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Seattle, Courcy (Michie, Kilpatrick) &hellip; 11:365&mdash;Seattle, Hanna (Boileau, Holmes) &hellip; 14:386&mdash;San Diego, Carmichael (Faulkner, Sinclair) &hellip; 18:02.Penalties &mdash; None.Saves: Head, 5; Armstrong, 21, Champoux, 33ATTENDANCE: 7,642<h2>Fri. Nov. 15 PORTLAND 6 at DENVER 3</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Portland, Messier (Kearns, Pearson) &hellip; 6:472&mdash;Denver, Martin (Velprava) &hellip; 14:49Penalties &mdash; Miller, 1:47; Goegan, 11:58; Lemieux, 16:48; Madigan, 19:28.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Portland, Saunders, (N. Johnson, Schmautz) &hellip; 15:52Penalties &mdash; Kearns, 13:28; Scholia 15:32.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Portland, Leach (Hebenton, Pearson) &hellip; 4:066&mdash;Denver, Redahl (Hoekstra) &hellip; 9:037&mdash;Portland, N. Johnson (Saunders, Messier) &hellip; 9:168&mdash;Portland, Jones (Donaldson)9&mdash;Portland, Bellerive (Leach) &hellip; 15:31Penalties &mdash; Madigan, 15:15Saves: McLeod. 31; Caron, 23;ATTENDANCE: 2,510<h2>SAN DIEGO 2 at PHOENIX 8</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Phoenix, Thiffault (Kabel, Hucul) &hellip; 112&mdash;Phoenix, Snell (Kote, Stefanie) &hellip; 5:333&mdash;Phoenix, Erickson (Charlebois, Thiffault) &hellip; 6:44Penalties &mdash; Huculak, (major) 5:10, Dunville, (major) 5:10; Thiffault, 9:38; Cardiff 9:38; Dunville,11:17; Polanic 13:27; Evans, 17:45.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Phoenix, Pronovost (Erickson, McVie) &hellip; 10425&mdash;Phoenix, Charlebois (Erickson, Hucul) &hellip; 17.466&mdash;San Diego, Hynes (McMillan, Hilts) &hellip; 18:007&mdash;Phoenix, Pronovost, (Meehan, McVie) &hellip; 18:49Penalties &mdash; Dupont, 7:09; Cote, 45; Shaw, 16:37.Saves: McCartan, 27; Charron, 12; Broderick, 14;ATTENDANCE: 5,441<h2>SEATTLE 2 at VANCOUVER 3</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Vancouver, Taylor (Hextail, Gardner) &hellip; 4:592&mdash;Seattle, Dineen (Michie, Fielder) &hellip; 6:19Penalties &mdash; Barlow, 5:57, Gardner, (served by Gagnon) 13:23<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Seattle, Boileau &hellip; 7:104&mdash;Vancouver, Lunde, &hellip; 8:29Penalties &mdash; Holmes, 6:53; Hanna, 13:19; Larose, 15:07.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Vancouver, Lunde (Barlow, Cherry) &hellip; 2:15Penalty &mdash; Lemieux, 17:25.Saves: Armstrong, 37; Gardner, 26;ATTENDANCE: 9,303<h2>Sat. Nov. 16 DENVER 3 at PHOENIX 5</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Denver, Vejprava (Martin, Carter) &hellip; 5:522&mdash;Phoenix, McVie (Meehan, Pronovost) &hellip; 6:42Penalty &mdash; Polanic, 14:07.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Phoenix, McVie (Pronovost, Meehan) &hellip; 9:314&mdash;Phoenix, Charlebois (Kabel, Thiffault) &hellip; 9:495&mdash;Phoenix, Meehan (Pronovost, Dunville) &hellip; 14:026&mdash;Denver, Carter (Mavety, Vejprava) &hellip; 19:19Penalties &mdash; Mavety 5:00; Shaw, 17:06.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>7&mdash;Phoenix, Charlebois (Thiffault, Abel) &hellip; 3:108&mdash;Denver, Goegan (Mavety, Carter) &hellip; 14:31Penalties &mdash; Miller, 15:38Saves: Farr, 29; Broderick, 20;ATTENDANCE: 4,775.<h2>VANCOUVER 4 at PORTLAND 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Portland, Schmauti (Johnson) &hellip; 11:58Penalties &mdash; Madison, 13:41; Barlow, (misconduct) 13:41.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Portland, Leach (Jones) &hellip; 1:243&mdash;Vancouver, Hall (Taylor, Hextail) &hellip; 6:354&mdash;Portland, Messier (Johnston, Bellerive) &hellip; 10:055&mdash;Vancouver, Hextall (Barlow, Hall) &hellip; 12:34Penalties &mdash; Madigan, 0:35; Hextall, 3:57, Donaldson 6:07; Hall, 6:52; Messier, 13:27; Danald&raquo;on, 18: 39; Hay, 19:57, Taylor, 19:57.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>6&mdash;Vancouver, Taylor (Hoxtall) &hellip; 5:397&mdash;Portland, Schmauti (Saunders, Jones) &hellip; 9:548&mdash;Vancouver, Hall (Lemieux, Taylor) &hellip; 13:32Penalties &mdash; Hoxtall, 9:04; Van Impe, 12:32.Saves: Millar, 7; Gardner, 14; Kelley, 30.ATTENDANCE: 6,589.<h2>Sun. Nov. 17 DENVER 3 at SAN DIEGO 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Denver, B. Carter (Holdaway, Vejprava) &hellip; 8:082&mdash;Denver, Martin (B. Carter, Vejprava) &hellip; 12:51Penalties &mdash; Miller, 4:50; D. Carter, 13:14; Goegan, 14:00.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Denver, Martin (Holdaway) &hellip; 5:044&mdash;San Diego, MacMillan (Sinclair, Huculak) &hellip; 5:215&mdash;San Diego, Stanfield (Eagle, Ehrenverth) &hellip; 16:08Penalties &mdash; Richardson, 4:27; Mavety, 4:33; Mavety, 10:49.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>6&mdash;San Diego, Hynes &hellip; 5:387&mdash;San Diego, Hilts (Huculak, Sinclair) &hellip; 16:52.Penalties &mdash; Eagle, 2:16; D. Carter, 14:58; Goegan, 16:45; Huculak, 17:43.Saves: Caron, 33; Champoux, 27.ATTENDANCE: 8,571.<h2>VANCOUVER 2 at SEATTLE 3</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Seattle, Holmes (Larose, Boileau) &hellip; 3:11Penalties &mdash; Larose, 9:10; Fielder, 14:48; Harris, 17:00.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Vancouver, Barlow (Lunde, Lemieux) &hellip; 6:573&mdash;Seattle, Boileau (Leonard, Holmes) &hellip; 12:514&mdash;Seattle, Powers (Dineen, Leonard) &hellip; 17:57Penalties &mdash; Killpatrick, 8:53; Hall, Boileau, 13:45; Pratt, 15:45<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Vancouver, Gagnon (Lemieux, Lunde) &hellip; 1:43Penalties &mdash; Killpatrick, 1:51, Cheery, 6:03; Killpatrick, 9:54; Hanna, 17:00; Block, 19:32; Lemieux,(misconduct and game-misconduct) 19:32.Saves: Gardner, 20; Head, 22.ATTENDANCE: 6,231.<h2>How They Stand</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02316/2622286-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="598" height="313"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues. Nov. 19Seattle 0 at Vancouver 5Wed. Nov. 20San Diego 4 at Denver 2Phoenix 1 at Portland 6Fri. Nov. 22Phoenix 8 at Seattle 2San Diego 4 at Denver 3Portland 7 at Vancouver 1Sat. Nov. 23Denver 4 at San Diego 4Portland 3 at Seattle 3Sun. Nov. 24Phoenix 0 at Portland 1<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tues. Nov. 26Phoenix at VancouverWed. Nov. 27Portland at DenverPhoenix at San DiegoVancouver at SeattleFri. Nov. 29Phoenix at DenverSeattle at VancouverSat. Nov. 30Phoenix at DenverPortland at San DiegoSun. Dec. 1Portland at PhoenixVancouver at Seattle<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03225/2622279-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="581" height="710"></div> &#9632;

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Western League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY NEIL CAMPBELL</div>OAKVILLE, ONT. &mdash;Injection of new blood from the defunct Toronto and Guelph clubs has helped turn the Orillia Terriers and Barrie Flyers into contenders.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01379/2622324-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="269" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Earl Balfour</figcaption></div>The Terriers, cellar-dwellers last year, have picked up the nucleus of The Toronto Marlboro team that went to the Eastern Allan Cup final last spring.Several key members of last year&rsquo;s Guelph team shifted to Barrie when the Regals folded.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02327/2622317-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="263" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Boat Hurley</figcaption></div>Not too surprisingly, the Terriers and Flyers were battling with Galt for top spot after a month of this year&rsquo;s schedule.Orillia landed the ex-Marlies by arranging practice time on a Toronto ice surface, cutting down on travel time for their recruits.Heading the list of acquisitions are goaltender Gerry McNamara, defenseman Mike Draper and forwards Gary Milroy, Earl Balfour, Carl Hymers, Moe Galand, and Grant Moore.With veterans John Chasewzski, Wayne Cheeseman, and George Westfall back and Jim Davidson up from junior A, the Terriers started the season with a pretty strong lineup.Berrie added defensemen Rick McClocklin and Daye Luciuk, two of the league&rsquo;s best, and forward John McMillan from Guelph.Other additions included ex-Marlies Wayne Weller and Bob Forhan, pro veteran Pete Panagabko, and ex-Waterloo Lutheran goaltender Ken Payne.With hard corps of veterans like Mike Dubeau, Dave Nicholishen, Ray Gariepy, Jon Weeks and Corby Adams back from last., year&rsquo;s club, the Flyers started the year with a seven-game unbeaten streak.Adams sparked that fast start with six goals and 11 assists in those seven games.Oakville Oaks, who finished eighth last year, were expected to climb in the standings with the addition of four ex-Regals and former Woodstock defenseman Bryle Klinck.But injuries to Klinck, Brian Pryce and Terry Oliver hit them hard and they managed only one win in their first seven starts.Making his coaching debut is one of the league&rsquo;s all-time great goaltenders, Harold (Boat) Hurley.Hurley left the goaltending to Ludger Doucet in the early going and coached from the bench.Galt acquired goaltender Errol McKibbon from Barrie to replace Norm Defelice, who moved to Long Island of the U.S. Eastern League.Defelice set modern league records with a 2.14 goals against average and five shutouts last season.But the Hornets strengthened their attack with the acquisition of Ron Hergott and Howie Dietrich from Eastern League clubs.Collingwood was hit hard by the loss of Dave McComb, who led the league in scoring for the last two years, and goaltender Chuck Jewell.Kingston lost veteran defenseman Bill Burega and new player-coach Jack McIntyre is in the midst of rebuilding job at Woodstock.New player-coach at Belleville is senior veteran Davey Jones. &#9632;

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Barrie, Orillia Teams Build Contending Clubs

<div class="byline">BY PAT CONNOLLY</div>HALIFAX, N.S. &mdash;The only bona fide senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey league in the Atlantic Provinces, the Newfoundland senior circuit, has settled into, a 40-game schedule with very few player changes from the 1967-68 season.The most prominent newcomer is former minor pro star Ray Cyr, who has become player-coach of St. John&rsquo;s Capitols, succeeding Fleming Mackell, who vacated last spring. At Gander, Jacques Allard has secured goaler Brian Rafuse on loan from Long Island Ducks. Frank Dorrington has his championship team intact at Corner Brook, where the Royals are everybody&rsquo;s choice to repeat.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03265/2622355-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="258" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray Cyr</figcaption></div>Former Halifax and Moncton General Manager and coach Jimmy McDonald has returned to the game from a different entrance. The smiling Irishman has been appointed development coordinator for the Maritime Amateur Hockey Association, a position he is eminently qualified to assume in the rapidly expanding MAHA.Two former hockey personalities are prominent in Nova Scotia provincial politics. One time broadcaster and promoter Gerry Regan is Liberal Opposition Leader in the provincial legislature. Douglas (Dugger) MacNeil, former defense star with Montreal Royals and Halifax Atlantics. sits on the government side as MLA for Halifax-St. Margaret&rsquo;s.A member of the Hockey Hall Of Fame and one of the most popular citizens in these parts, Marty Barry was on hand as Halifax Jr. Canadiens dropped a pair of exhibition games to Toronto University Blues, 6-3 and 3-2. Doug Cochrane has been appointed Maritime scout for Pittsburgh Penguins. Doug is former President of the Peterborough OHA Junior Petes and now a Dartmouth resident. Jerry Cameron, an Ottawa boy who played last season with Sorel Black Hawks, scored three goals to propel St. Mary&rsquo;s Huskies to a 9-1 win over Mount Allison Mounties in Maritime Intercollegiate Hockey League action. Gilles Leger of Cornwall has his defending champions from St. F.X. off to great start. The X-Men nipped Huskies 5-4 in their season opener at Halifax. &#9632;

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Veteran Ray Cyr Coaching Addition As Newfoundland Senior Loop Rolls

<div class="byline">BY MATT DENNIS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-1010/2622386-1-eng-US/f0020-102.jpg" title="f0020-10" width="273" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Plager</figcaption></div>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &mdash;Kansas City Blues went eight games on the road before performing before their home fans in their American Royal Building and immediately produced an 8-3 triumph, over the Memphis South Stars.Staying at home they followed with a 2-1 squeaker over Houston Apollos, travelled to Omaha for a 3-1 win over the Knights then returned to edge the same Omaha crew 3-2 for their third successive victory.One of the most aggressive rearguards to grace the Central League, Bill Plager has been turning in standout performances for the Blues in their close contests.&ldquo;When one play can make the difference between a win or a loss by a single goal, it is important that you have the men on the ice who will give the opposition nothing. Plager is that type of competitor and he will be of great help to our young goalies Gary Edwards and Ted Ouimet this season,&rdquo; said general manager-coach Fred Hucul.In discussing his own play, Plager, a rugged 175-pounder commented, &ldquo;My first job on the ice is to play hockey in a manner that lets the other team know they can&rsquo;t shove me or our team around. This is a man&rsquo;s game and that&rsquo;s the way I want to play it.In his first six games after being sent to the Blues, Plager drew 24 minutes in penalties displaying a crowd-pleasing aggressive style.Holding down top spot in the Northern Division, the Blues were led offensively by Phil Obendorf and Gary Veneruzzo with seven and six goals, respectively.OMAHA Larry Popein&rsquo;s Knights were scoring goals but giving up too many counting 47 in their first 16 outings but giving up 52.&ldquo;That means we&rsquo;ll have to work harder on our checking. The goalie can&rsquo;t do all the work and if our forwards backcheck to help out the defence, we&rsquo;ll be better,&rdquo; said Popein.Ray Brunel was the top pointgetter for the Knights with nine goals and seven assists. Rookie Jack Egers had 14 points in 16 games along with Bill Fairbairn.HOUSTON &mdash; The Appolos lost their scoring touch dropping a 2-1 decision to Kansas City and a 4-1 defeat was tossed at them by the Fort Worth Wings.Al Caron was leading their offensive with six goals and 10 assists in 13 games while Chris Bordeleau and Ernie Hicke followed with 15 points apiece.Defenseman Guy Lapointe was returned to Houston after emergency injury replacement duty with the parent NHL Montreal Canadiens.OKLAHOMA CITY &mdash; The Tom Webster-Jim Lorentz-Grant Erickson combination continued to pace the Blazers as they indulged in a four-game win streak and after 14 outings the trio had accumulated 74 scoring points.Webster was the CHL&rsquo;s top sniper with 16 goals and Lorentz the leading playmaker with 20 assists.As the Blazers gave up 32 goals in their 14 games, Russ Gillow toiled in the big pads for 11 of them producing a 3.09 goalsagainst average. He racked up three shutouts needing five more to equal his performance of last season.Rick Smith was sent to the Blazers to handle a defence post from the parent NHL Boston Bruins. Smith played for the Hamilton Junior Wings in the OHA ranks last season and opened the season with Boston.TULSA &mdash; The Oilers found the Dallas Black Hawks tough opposition in back-to-back, home-and-home games and best they could come up with was a pair of ties. They hold down third place in the Northern Division but are only two points back of the front-running Kansas City Blues.Dan Johnson and Len Bazay are the leading point-getters for the Oilers with 14 points apiece, one more than Ken Campbell.Terry Clancy and Dale MacLeish were both forced to the sidelines with injuries but expected back shortly.AMARILLO &mdash; Paul Andrea remained the leading point-getter for the Wranglers showing eight goals and 12 assists in their first 15 games. Marty Reynolds and Larry Billows followed with 12 points apiece.The parent NHL Pittsburgh Penguins, trying to shake a slump, called up leftwinger Bill LeCaine and defenceman Doug Barrie from the Wranglers.DALLAS &mdash; The Black Hawks welcomed veteran goalie Denis DeJordy from the parent NHL Chicago Black Hawks and as the Hawks lost only one of his first four appearances he gave up eight goals.Cliff Koroll, former University of Denver star in his first pro season and Brian McDonald were the low-scoring Dallas pointgetters with 11 apiece.MEMPHIS &mdash; Ted O&rsquo;Connor remained with the South Stars as interim general manager leaving the coaching chores to Parker MacDonald. John Muckier had handled both jobs before being called up to coach the parent NHL Minnesota North Stars.Al Lebrun joined the South Stars from San Diego of the Western League.Jim Paterson was the leading point-getter for the South Stars with nine goals and nine assists for 18 points in 14 outings.Joey Johnston returned to Memphis after a quick trip to Minnesota as an emergency injury replacement. &#9632;

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Plager Puts Life In High Riding K.C. Blues

<h2>WED. NOV. HOUSTON 3 at FORT WORTH 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Fort Worth, Perkins (Hatoum, Neikamp) &hellip; 5:21Penalties &mdash; Grierson 3:51, Gates 18:47.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Fort Worth, Monteith (Neikamp, LeClerc) &hellip; 6:413&mdash;Fort Worth, Cunniff (Speck, Ketter) &hellip; 13:59Penalties &mdash; Lavender 6:25, Burns 7:38, McCann 9:32, Hart, Flegal 12:08, Caron 13:34, McCann 16:28,Lavender 19:43.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Fort Worth, Speck (Cunniff, Meyers) &hellip; 5:525&mdash;Houston, Grenier (Hicke, Lavender) &hellip; 15:386&mdash;Houston, Caron (Eliott, Drouin) &hellip; 18:217&mdash;Houston, Caron (Ellett, Hicke) &hellip; 19:57Penalties &mdash; Flegal 5:41, Drouin (major), LeClerc (major) 7:50, Gibbons and Lavender 11:08, Neikamp 13:02.Saves: Gray 25, Myre 27.<h2>KANSAS CITY 0 at OKLAHOMA CITY 8</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Oklahoma City, Tremblay (Harrison) &hellip; 13:342&mdash;Oklahoma City, Harrison (Hodgson, Lonsberry) &hellip; 14:223&mdash;Oklahoma City, Toothill (Erickson, Webster) &hellip; 18:144&mdash;Oklahoma City, Gibbs (Lorentz, Webster) &hellip; 19:27Penalties &mdash; Kannogeisser and Hodgson 1:06, Dennis and Gibbs 3:28, Gibbs 8:55, Wilkins 11:59,Mostinsek 16:16, Fortin and Atkinson 18:42, Plager 19:16.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>No Scoring.Penalties &mdash; Hodgson 4:36, DeDiana 9:24.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Oklahoma City, Woodley (Hodgson) &hellip; 1:016&mdash;Oklahoma City, Atkinson (Toothill, Lesuk) &hellip; 5:377&mdash;Oklahoma City, Lesuk (Wilkins, Atkinson) &hellip; 15:078&mdash;Oklahoma City, Tremblay (Atkinson) &hellip; 19:22Penalties &mdash; Proceviat (minor, major) and Harrison (minor, major) 5:00, DeDiana and Lorentz 8:16,Gibbs 10:05, Cardin 12:50, DeDiana (minor, misconduct) 15:24, Plager and Tremblay 20:00.Saves: Gillow 26, Edwards 29.<h2>TULSA 1 at AMARILLO 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Amarillo, Reynolds (Blomquist, Lanyon) &hellip; 11:112&mdash;Amarillo, Andrea (Sharpe, Billows) &hellip; 15:16Penalties Carruthers 1:03, Elwell 2:50, Evans and Barrie 8:37, Barrie 12:36, Gaudette and Campbell 13:07, Lagace 19:50.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Amarillo, Swain (Andrea) &hellip; 0.494&mdash;Tulsa, Byers (Campbell) &hellip; 19:57Penalties &mdash; Lessard and Quinn 4:59, Reynolds 6:47, Seiwood 10:18, Reynolds 12:34.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Amarillo, Andrea (Lanyon, Billows) &hellip; 15:14Penalties &mdash; Harbaruk 3:23, Lanyon 8:10, Quinn 13:51, Reeson 14:54Saves: Edwards 21, Reason 23.<h2>FRI. NOV. 8 FORT WORTH 2 at DALLAS 5</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Dallas, Koroll (Wiste, Gaudet) &hellip; 11:292&mdash;Dallas, McKay (Rizzuto) &hellip; 16:083&mdash;Dallas, Koroll (Wiste, Shmyr) &hellip; 16:494&mdash;Fort Worth, Snow (Speck, Gibbons) &hellip; 17:17Penalties &mdash; Terbenche (major), Reichmuth (major) 5:33, Meyers 5:57, Bond 7:22, McCann 10:30, McKay 12:33, 17:06, Shmyr 17:44.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Dallas, Koroll (Maki, Wiste) &hellip; 1:55Penalties &mdash; Reichmuth 4:06, Bond, Reichmuth 7:57, LeBlanc 9:16, Graham 10:49, Reichmuth, Bond 18:04.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>6&mdash;Fort Worth, McCann (Monteith, Gates) &hellip; 3:507&mdash;Dallas, Gaudet (McDonald) &hellip; 5:51Penalties &mdash; Ketter 11:26, Hart 19:15.Saves: Norris 21, Gray 26.<h2>KANSAS CITY 3 at MEMPHIS 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No Scoring.Penalties &mdash; Standing (minor, misconduct) 19:03.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Memphis, Paterson (Dineen, MacKenzie) &hellip; 10:30Penalties &mdash; Dennis 6:30, Edwards 9:30, Fortin 13:31, DeDiana and Hunt 16:31.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Kansas City. Giesebrecht (Obendorf, Veneruzzo) &hellip; 0:193&mdash;Memphis, MacDonald (Seguin, Jopling) &hellip; 1:434&mdash;Memphis, Meissner (Paterson) &hellip; 7:085&mdash;Kansas City, Guilbault (Hucul, Giesebrecht) &hellip; 9:346&mdash;Memphis, Standing (Fitzpatrick, Senior) &hellip; 13:237&mdash;Kansas City, Veneruzzo &hellip; 13:39Penalties &mdash; Proveciat 2:58, Sutherland, Plager 6:52, Hunt 9:28.Saves: Wetzel 38, Edwards 32. &#9632;

CHL Summaries

<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 26)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0193/2622584-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="574" height="402"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Nov. 20Amarillo 0 at Kansas City 3Fort Worth 3 at Memphis 3Omaha 2 at Oklahoma City 5Thurs. Nov. 21Dallas 2 at Houston 4Fri. Nov. 22Amarillo 0 at Tulsa 2Fort Worth 5 at Kansas City 7Houston 2 at Oklahoma City 7Memphis 4 at Dallas 7Sat. Nov. 23Dallas 5 at Amarillo 0Fort Worth 4 at Omaha 3Houston 2 at Memphis 1Kansas City 5 at Tulsa 7Sun. Nov. 24Oklahoma City 4 at Kansas City 0Tulsa 4 at Amarillo 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0264/2622577-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg" title="f0021-02" width="591" height="414"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues. Nov. 19Kingston 4 at Belleville 7Orillia 0 at Collingwood 8Galt 5 at Orillia 2Fri. Nov. 22Oakville 3 at Barrie 8Galt 5 at Orillia 2Sat. Nov. 23Barrie 2 at Galt 9Collingwood 7 at Kingston 3Sun. Nov. 24Orillia 2 at Oakville 6Collingwood 3 at Belleville 1Kingston 3 at Woodstock 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0336/2622570-1-eng-US/f0021-032.jpg" title="f0021-03" width="580" height="428"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0428/2622563-1-eng-US/f0021-042.jpg" title="f0021-04" width="585" height="312"></div><h2>WESTERN CANADA JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Fri. Nov. 22)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0525/2622556-1-eng-US/f0021-052.jpg" title="f0021-05" width="586" height="204"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0620/2622549-1-eng-US/f0021-062.jpg" title="f0021-06" width="570" height="205"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0716/2622542-1-eng-US/f0021-072.jpg" title="f0021-07" width="600" height="356"></div><h2>NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2>(Standings On Wed. Nov. 20)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0812/2622535-1-eng-US/f0021-082.jpg" title="f0021-08" width="586" height="285"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-099/2622528-1-eng-US/f0021-092.jpg" title="f0021-09" width="583" height="304"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div>NASHVILLE, Tenn. &mdash;Although they only gained an even split in their recent efforts to strengthen the team, the Nashville Dixie Fivers figure to have the material this year to be a prominent contender for Southern Division laurels in Eastern Hockey League play.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-109/2622615-1-eng-US/f0021-102.jpg" title="f0021-10" width="256" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Labelle</figcaption></div>Coach Lloyd Hinchberger, ever on the alert for ways and means to bolster his aggregation, thought he saw an opportunity to give his team some impetus when Ted McCaskill, a former star forward, suddenly became available. McCaskill played with Memphis last year and applied for reinstatement as an amateur so he could rejoin the Flyers.But Hinchberger&rsquo;s plan hit a bottleneck when Rochester put in a claim for McCaskillto keep him out of the EHL. The Flyers were somewhat suspicious that Charlotte which has a hookup with Rochester had instigated the move since McCaskill&rsquo;s return to Nashville would have given the team considerable front line efficiency.Just about the time this move transpired, defenseman Leo Olivier broke a bone in his left hand. So Hinchberger contacted Don Labelle, who had been working in Knoxville and evidently foregoing the campaign. This time Don was receptive to Hindi&rsquo;s proposal and he definitely will be available to play during Olivier&rsquo;s convalescence. At the same time, there was a possibility he might work out a deal with his employer to operate for the rest of the year.Thus defensive corps that at one time looked bleak due to the holdouts and retirements could be as strong as anticipated if Labelle sticks after Olivier is better. Certainly Labelle&rsquo;s experience will stand the Flyers in good stead and help their bid to overtake Greensboro for the southern lead.NEW HAVEN: Don Perry&rsquo;s return to duty has helped club&rsquo;s defense. Sandy McAndrews dropped to make room for the player-pilot. Jim Currie hurt in automobile accident and likely to sit out the season. Russ McClenaghan broke finger and fractured his knuckles. He will be lost for six weeks at the minimum. Bill Smith posted hat trick vs Jersey.CHARLOTTE: Ted Baylis went home after his suspension meant he would have to be idle for 30 days. Chuck Goddard and Bob Whidden battling for goalie job. Checkers had best record ever for a northern trip. Claude Ouimet has been scoring steadily.SYRACUSE: Grey Smith, new winger, tested bad man John Brophy in one of his first starts. Blazers game with Johnstown had to be called off when Jets were caught in snowstorm en route to game. Coach Ray Crew has been prompting his charges to batter the Blazers foes.LONG ISLAND: Les Calder suffered head injury at Jersey when struck by puck and had to be taken to hospital. Ducks unhappy with their schedule which is uneven this year due to the fact they share their arena with basketball team. Butch Morris posted four goals vs Syracuse and three vs Charlotte. Ed Lawson says team is playing better than any time in two seasons.SALEM: Rebels traded Harley Hodgson to Jacksonville for Jim Lorette in a switch of defensemen although Hodgson, who was drafted from Knoxville, also can play the front line. George Surmay posted 67 saves at Nashville including 29 in the second period and 27 in the third. Jim Lane became embroiled in stick swinging fight with his old Charlotte mates Coach Dave Lucas upset by cheap penalties his team incurs. Wayne Spooner dropped. Jim Jago posted hat trick vs Charlotte.CLINTON: Newcomer Joe Robertson has taken over club scoring lead. Winger Bill Bannerman injured his back and missed several games. Ian Anderson is scoring heavily from his defensive slot. The whitewashing at Charlotte&rsquo;s hands was first blanking for Comets in almost two years. Marc Rioux sent to Sherbrooke Beavers. Howie Dietrich works for city of Waterloo. Ont. and is playing with Galt Hornets. He is on Comets reserve list.JOHNSTOWN: Terry Sex smith continued his fights, this time tangling with Clinton&rsquo;s Ian Anderson. Terrvy also clipped a fan with his stick in a melee at Jersey. Ted Staehli placed on injured list and Ken Gustafson was signed. Jets Scored five times in third period to overcome 7-3 deficit and tie New Haven. 8-8. Jim Mair has been returned from wing to defense. Prexy Charles Kunkle won Sport Magazine service award for promoting hockey.JACKSONVILLE: Rookie Willy Terry from Tulsa activated along with Harley Hodgson, who agreed to play with Rocket after being traded by Salem where he had been idle. Brian Smith and Ron Dundas temporarily on limbo list. Bob Mullin posted hat trick at Macon. Danny Belisle had one vs Nashville. Harold White bothered by flu. Rockets played 18 of first 24 games on road and have trouble getting ice time when at home. Their Coliseum is very active.GREENSBORO: Bill Armour placed on waivers, but was recalled when Moe L&rsquo;Abbe was hurt. Don Burgess has topped 20-goal mark. Barry Salovaara due off the injury list any day &hellip; Though they outshot Nashville 55-21, Gens had to be content with a tie as captain Ron Muir lamented &ldquo;some nights you can&rsquo;t get the puck into the net no matter what you do.&rdquo; Gens upset by criticism ofteam in Nashville papers.JERSEY: Devils failed to get a penalty in game with Clinton. Bob Taylor returned to nets after 18-stitch head injury had sidelined him for several games Brian Daley from Bellevue filled in for a couple of games. Larry Pleau is scoring steadilv and veteran Reggie Meserve is holding his own. Coach Marcel Pelletier, a former goalie almost made it onto the ice when Taylor was hurt but he chose Jamie Kennedy instead. &#9632;

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Labelle Rushes To Aid Dixie Flyers As Rochester Blocks McCaskill Return

<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 26)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-117/2622660-1-eng-US/f0021-112.jpg" title="f0021-11" width="593" height="485"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues. Nov. 19Clinton 2 at Syracuse 4Jacksonville 3 at Charlotte 1New Haven 4 at Long Island 7Salem 5 at Nashville 1Wed. Nov. 20Syracuse 1 at New Hoven 3Greensboro 3 at Salem 6Thurs. Nov. 21New Haven 5 at Syracuse 2Greensboro 4 at Nashville 4Charlotte 4 at Salem 3Fri. Nov. 22New Haven 1 at Clinton 4Johnstown 4 at Long Island 3Syracuse 6 at New Jersey 7Jacksonville 4 at Greensboro 7Salem 2 at Charlotte 3Sat. Nov. 23Syracuse 1 at Clinton 1Long Island 2 at Johnstown 7Nashville 6 at Salem 2Greensboro 3 at Jacksonville 2Sun. Nov. 24Johnstown 5 at Syracuse 2Clinton 7 at New Haven 5Jacksonville 2 at Nashville 6<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2>(Including Games of Sun. Nov. 17)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-125/2622653-1-eng-US/f0021-122.jpg" title="f0021-12" width="574" height="299"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-135/2622646-1-eng-US/f0021-132.jpg" title="f0021-13" width="576" height="305"></div> &#9632;

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Looking At EHL Race

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div>TOLEDO, O. &mdash;A rookie and a veteran were staging an early season race for goal scoring honors in the International Hockey League.That would be Doug Volmar, the hard shooting right winger for the Columbus Checkers and Merv Dubchak, who plays the same position for the Fort Wayne Komets.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-146/2622806-1-eng-US/f0022-142.jpg" title="f0022-14" width="269" height="402"><figcaption class="caption-body">Len Thomson</figcaption></div>Volmar, who spent a year with the U.S. Olympic team after graduating from Michigan State University, notched 16 goals in his first 13 games.Dubchak, who holds the league record with 72 goals in one season, was on his way to a possible repetition, with a goal a game, or 14 markers in 14 appearances.These two, who are reputed to have by far the hardest shots in the IHL, were matched up in game at Fort Wayne but they wound up with no decision, each scoring once in a 4-2 victory for Volmar&rsquo;s team. But neither registered on his famous &ldquo;blast&rdquo; shot. Volmar flipped the puck in after a rebound and Dubchak counted on backhand effort.FORT WAYNE &mdash; Playing coach Len Thomson sustained an eye injury in a game at Port Huron and his immediate playing status was in doubt. The Komets had their first back-to-back Friday and Saturday night games and they drew 6,243 and 7,021 for a total of 48,357 in eight home appearances &mdash; Goalie Jim Shaw had his first shutout, 3-0 over Dayton, after four one-goal games &hellip; Rick Howie, a forward, was sent to St. Thomas, Ont.DAYTON &mdash; The Gems were winning on the strength of great defense, with only 34 goals against in 14 games &hellip; Manager Lefty McFadden was seeking to make another deal &hellip; Coach Larry Wilson used rookie defenseman Gordon Malinosky at left wing while Duncan Rousseau was sitting out 15 minutes in penalties &hellip; Goalie Pat Rupp had his second shutout of the season.MUSKEGON &mdash; The Mohawks won their first road game after losing five when they came from behind to nose out the Checkers at Columbus, 10-9 &hellip; Nine different players scored, only Bryan McLay getting a pair &hellip; The Mohawks made another move to bolster defense when they signed Elgin McCann, who was on loan to Amarillo by Montreal and who played for Memphis in the Central League last season &hellip; The No 1. line of Gary Ford, McLay and Kent Byrnes was 1-2-3 in Mohawk scoring.COLUMBUS &mdash; Goalie George Sleaver pulled the Checkers out of losing slump. They had another goalie, John Fisher, who played in Europe last year with the Canadian and Dutch national teams and released spare goalie Marcel Roy The Chex made cash deal with Port Huron for pugilistic forward Bob Kelly. Chi Chi Farenzena and Pierre Brillant were released.TOLEDO &mdash; The Blades moved up to second place with victories over Muskegon, at home and abroad &hellip; Jim Sanko was leading team scoring &hellip; Seven different players scored in a 7-2 win over Muskegon &hellip; The Junior Blades were leading the International Junior League after an 18-2 thumping of Lima.PORT HURON &mdash; The Flags moved up to a tie for third after breaking their string of 28 games on the road without victory &hellip; Bob McCammon was moved to defense after injuries sidelined Ross Eichler and Jim McCloskey &hellip; Joe Cooper was secured from DesMoines in a trade for winger Barry Boughner &hellip; Rookie Pete Mara was leading the team in scoring. &#9632;

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Rookie, Vet In Goal Battle Thomson Suffers Eye Injury

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-155/2622844-1-eng-US/f0022-152.jpg" title="f0022-15" width="586" height="367"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Wed. Nov. 20Port Huron 3 at Columbus 6Fort Wayne 0 at Dayton 4Fri. Nov. 22Fort Wayne 1 at Des Moines 4Dayton 5 at Columbus 8Muskegon 1 at Toledo 4Sat. Nov. 23Fort Wayne 2 at Des Moines 2Port Huron 4 at Muskegon 7Dayton 4 at Toledo 4Sun. Nov. 24Columbus 4 at Dayton 6Toledo 3 at Port Huron 3<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed. Nov. 27Toledo at DaytonDes Moines at ColumbusThurs. Nov. 28Dayton at Fort WayneColumbus at MuskegonDes Moines at Port HuronFri. Nov. 29Muskegon at ToledoFort Wayne at ColumbusSat. Nov. 30Des Moines at Fort WayneDayton at MuskegonPort Huron at ToledoSun. Dec. 1Des Moines at DaytonToledo at Port Huron<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-164/2622837-1-eng-US/f0022-162.jpg" title="f0022-16" width="628" height="517"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>KITCHENER, Ont. &mdash;Coaches are falling like bowling pins in the Ontario Junior Hockey Association League this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0192/2622889-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="253" height="381"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Long</figcaption></div>First Ike Hilderbrand was given the ouster by the Oshawa Generals when he couldn&rsquo;t get the team on a winning track. Last week veteran coach Wally Kullman was fired by the Rangers in a surprise move and replaced by general manager Brent Madill.The Oshawa team is still negotiating over a contract sttlement with Hildebrand but the General coach is definitely through with the club. His place was taken by Doug Williams.Neither the Generals nor the Rangers have been formidable hockey clubs this season. Kullman&rsquo;s Rangers were in last place when he was dismissed. He won the OHA pennant the last two years with Kitchener.Not all OHA coaches, however, are in jeopardy these days.For more than a decade, first in Barrie, later in Niagara Falls, Bill Long worked hand in glove with veteran Hp Emms.Long was Emms No. 1 assistant during the final lean years in Barrie and was caoch in Niagara Falls when the Flyers won their last two Ontario championships.It was a secure position although with Hap and his son Paul as club owners the future for Bill Long was definitely limited.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0257/2622882-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="522" height="630"><figcaption class="caption-body">IKE HILDEBRAND&hellip; Ousted at Oshawa</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0342/2622875-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="532" height="628"><figcaption class="caption-body">WALLY KULLMAN&hellip; Fired By Kitchener</figcaption></div>Two years ago when Ottawa was granted franchise Long decided to strike out on his own and accepted the job as coach and manager.It was not an easy task, forming a new club and in the first season of operation the Ottowas 67s finished last in the 10-team group.There have been rough moments this year, too, and Log and the 67s are still far from being out of the woods.However there seemed to be a glimmer of hope when Ottawa took two of three points in home-and-home series with the strong-skating and highly-rated Montreal Canadiens.On home ice the 67s held the Canadiens to 1-1 draw, then astounded close to 10,000 fans in the Forum two nights later by upsetting the Montrealers 6-4.The loss was the first suffered before their own fans by the Canadiens this season and the three points moved Ottawa into the rarifield (for them) air of seventh place tie with London Knights and just shade below Montreal.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not trying to fool anyone&rdquo;, said Long, a real student of hockey. &ldquo;We have a lot of work to do yet but I honestly believe we can get into the playoffs this season. And with a young team we should move up another few notches next year. You can&rsquo;t build a junior club over night just like the expansion teams in the NHL can&rsquo;t be expected to match the established clubs for a while. But we&rsquo;re getting there slowly but surely.&rdquo;It would seem after six weeks of the schedule have been completed that Ottawa must finish ahead of Kitchener and Oshawa to accomplish Long&rsquo;s aim.St. Catharines Black Hawks, without a championship since the days of Pat Stapleton, Roger Crozier and Chico Maid in the 1959-60 season, ran their undefeated record to nine games with back-to-back wins over Kitchener (9-5 in Kitchener, 8-4 in St. Catharines) and are taking dead aim on the first place Peterborough Petes.The nine-game string is the longest by any team so far this season.The Hawks have had good mileage out of Bob Sheehan, native of Boston and Dennis Giannini from Sudbury.Both are scoring at goal-a-game clip. Sheehan had four in the Hawks&rsquo; 8-4 win over Kitchener on home ice, the largest total by St. Catherine player since Ken Hodge turned professional at the end of the 1963-64 season. &#9632;

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Hildebrand, Kullman Bounced From OHA Jobs

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0617/2622958-1-eng-US/f0023-062.jpg" title="f0023-06" width="871" height="1165"></div><h2>SOLUTION IN DECEMBER 7 ISSUE</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Pictured player.7&mdash;Initials of MacQueen of Baltimore.8&mdash;One of the Houston Appolos.10&mdash;Danny O&rsquo;Shea played for this club last season. (abbr.)13&mdash;Initials of one of the Bruins.14&mdash;A Philadelphia rookie.15&mdash;Senior Baseball circuit. (init.)16&mdash;Initials of an N.H.L. captain.17&mdash;Pronoun.18&mdash;Initials of Lemieux of L.A.19&mdash;A young child.20&mdash;One of the Vancouver Canucks.21&mdash;Initials of one of the Leafs.22&mdash;Denotes scoreless tie.23&mdash;Pro football league. (init.)27&mdash;Golf ball stand.28&mdash;Cecil of Ed.30&mdash;Girls name.31&mdash;Red Kelly has won this trophy 4 times.32&mdash;Initials of one of the Hawks.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;A Toronto forward.2&mdash;Pittsburgh&rsquo;s farm club in the Central League.3&mdash;Initials of former pro Cushenan.4&mdash;The N.H.L.&rsquo;s old section.5&mdash;Initials of one of the Flyers.6&mdash;Wears number 12 for Philadelphia.9&mdash;Won A.H.L. scoring crown last season.11&mdash;Preposition.12&mdash;Initials of an N.H.L. city.17&mdash;Played 58 games for Pittsburgh last season.24&mdash;A Portland forward.25&mdash;An American state (abbr.)26&mdash;A former Boston line.28&mdash;A former Hawk centre.29&mdash;Worthy of Oakland was born here. (abbr.)<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;TALBOT.4&mdash;G.E.5&mdash;ESPOSITO.11&mdash;MARSHALL.12&mdash;B.B.13&mdash;D.P.15&mdash;LOS.17&mdash;U.S.A.18&mdash;AUG.19&mdash;W.R.20&mdash;Y.R.21&mdash;JOE.22&mdash;IAN.24&mdash;VERN.25&mdash;L.N.26&mdash;MATT.27&mdash;ERA.29&mdash;N.H.30&mdash;ULLMAN.31&mdash;Y.L.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;TREMBLAY.2&mdash;BROS.3&mdash;P.E.4&mdash;GOLDSWORTHY.6&mdash;SABOURIN.7&mdash;P.R.8&mdash;S.H.9&mdash;I.A.10&mdash;T.L.14&mdash;PARENT16&mdash;S.G.21&mdash;JEAN.23&mdash;NORM.24&mdash;V.M.25&mdash;LOU.27&mdash;E.L.28&mdash;A.A. &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword

<div class="byline">BY NORMAN MacLEAN</div>NEW YORK, N.Y. &mdash;The New York Rangers checking line, inhabited by such types as Dave Balon, a former Montreal Canadian, Reggie Fleming a native of Montreal and Ron Stewart, a former Toronto Maple Leaf and member of Punch Imlach&rsquo;s doghouse, was the main factor in moving the Broadway Blueshirts into first place in the National Hockey League&rsquo;s Eastern Division.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01105/2623003-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="246" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Nevin</figcaption></div>When New York defeated the Montreal Canadians 3-2 on Sunday November 17 with a relentless show of checking and skating it was the oft maligned third liners who did the job. These spear carriers who usually only get the ink when a Bobby Hull requires special super treatment, had been just a little remiss up until the big confrontation for first place. Stewart, the 36 year old cigar puffing clubhouse cheerleader had just one goal. Fleming had none at all and Balon, three. Walter Tkaczuk, who frequently plays center for the checkers had two. The line seemed to miss Orland Kurtenbach, the big, if slow skating, ice cop, who had pivoted for the highly successful leeches of 1967-68. Kurt was recently out of the hospital with back trouble and was watching from the sidelines.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0258/2622996-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="547" height="577"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON STEWART&hellip; Two Big Goals</figcaption></div>What he saw against the Canadiens might give him pause for thought. Balon did a masterful job on Jean Beliveau and this enabled the checkers to stop Montreal&rsquo;s big Beliveau, Yvan Cournoyer and Gilles Tremblay line.&ldquo;If you stop the big man (Beliveau), you stop the line,&rdquo; said a jubiliant Boom Boom Geoffrion later. &ldquo;I told Balon to skate with Beliveau and he sure did a job on him. Fleming played his best game of the year even if he did draw a penalty with 1:26 seconds to go. Referee Bill Friday saw Fleming and saw Beliveau go down and gave Reggie a penalty. It was bad call.&rdquo;The Rangers survived that and finished up toasting Stewart for his two goals and Vic Hadfield for his singleton. Stew&rsquo;s second tally won the game after Montreal had come back from 2-0 deficit to tie it at 2-2.&ldquo;This was big win for us,&rdquo; continued Geoffrion. &ldquo;Everybody played well. The key was the work done by Balon, Stew and Fleming but the rest of the team was right there, too.&rdquo;This game graphically demonstrated that the 1968-69 Rangers can beat anyone in the NHL &mdash; and proved a theory held by this writer for most of the new season. New York despite its first place standing and 11 won, 5 lost record was hurt by an over dose of Expansion teams on its early schedule.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0336/2622989-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="545" height="598"><figcaption class="caption-body">REG FLEMING&hellip; Played Best Game</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Undoubtedly, playing against so many of the Western clubs so often in the opening games slowed down our tempo. Then when we played against the East we lost the first three times, all of which were spaced around games against the Expansion teams. This should do it. We are now 9-2 with the West and 2-3 against the East, having beaten Chicago and Montreal in our last two tries against the older established teams. My boys can beat anyone when they work &mdash; and they know it now,&rdquo; enthused Geoffrion.The other main development in the Rangers drive for the top has been the relentless manner in which one of Broadway&rsquo;s most eligible bachelor&rsquo;s, Bob Nevin, continues to keep pace with one Robert Marvin Hull in scoring goals. Nevvy has 13, including both red lights in New York&rsquo;s 2-1 squeaker in Pittsburgh on November 16. Bob had 13 in 16 games as compared to 1967-68 when he did not get number 13 until game 36. &#9632;

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RANGERS’ CHECKING LINE POWERS CLUB TO TOP

NEW YORK, N.Y. &mdash;Goaltender Eddie &ldquo;Go Go&rdquo; Giacomin, the wandering minstrel in the Ranger cage, almost wrote National Hockey League history on November 17. In the last minute of play against Montreal, while protecting a 3-2 lead, Giac broke out of his net snared a loose puck and fired it the length of the ice toward the empty net left unprotected by the Canadiens in their six men attempt to tie the game.The puck slid slowly down ice and just missed, &mdash; going to the left of the open Montreal cage and over the icing line.&ldquo;With Reg Fleming in the penalty box we were almost two skaters down, so when I saw the loose puck in front of me, I iced it. I did not aim at the net, although it would have been nice to see it go in. The big thing is that we held on and won,&rdquo; said Giacomin in the celebrating Ranger dressing room later.Eddie has been quoted in the past as saying that his ambition is to score and NHL goal and he may yet do it. This observer can remember Charlie Raynor getting a shot on the Detroit net in the last minute of play when New York was behind by a single tally. Raynor skated all the way up to the Red Wing blue line and when the puck came back to him he let fly. It was stopped rather easily.In those years (1946-1952) the NHL did not have the rule prohibiting the netminder from going beyond the center Red Line as it now does. Despite this rule, Giacomin may some day get lucky and plunk one home against a desperate enemy&rsquo;s open net in the last minute of play. &#9632;

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